title: Mnemonic expertise during wakefulness and sleep.
abstract: We studied the world's most distinguished experts in the use of mnemonic techniques: the top participants of the World Memory Championships. They neither feel the use of mnemonics to be dreamlike, nor does their REM sleep differ from mnemonic-naive control subjects. Besides these empirical data, also theoretical considerations contradict an isomorphism between features of REM sleep dreaming and mnemonic principles.
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Endocrinology of Sleep, D-80804 Munich, Germany. dresler@mpipsykl.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dresler
authors.forename: Boris N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Konrad
mesh_terms: D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D004325:Dreams / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology*