Dreams, mnemonics, and tuning for criticality

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36 (6):625-626 (2013)
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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

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