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The sleeping brain, the states of consciousness, and the human intelligence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2007

Roumen Kirov
Roumen Kirov
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Cognitive Neurodynamics, Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria. ru@bio.bas.bghttp://www.bio.bas.bg
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Abstract

A large number of experimental results clearly indicate that sleep has an important role for human intelligence. Sleep-wake stages and their specific patterns of brain activation and neuromodulation subserve human memory, states of consciousness, and modes of information processing that strongly relate to intelligence. Therefore, human intelligence should be explained in a broader framework than is implicated by neuroimaging data alone.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 159
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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