title: Dreams, mnemonics, and tuning for criticality.
abstract: According to the tuning-for-criticality theory, the essential role of sleep is to protect the brain from super-critical behaviour. Here we argue that this protective role determines the content of dreams and any apparent relationship to the art of memory is secondary to this.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. barak@cs.nuim.ie http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/
authors.forename: Barak A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Pearlmutter
authors.forename: Conor J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Houghton
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*