Sueño, sueños y aprendizaje. Hacia una neurofisiología de la cognición

RESUMO

In this paper the author summarizes different pathways of reaserch around biological functions os sleeping, and particularly of the REM sleep. It is clear that there is a significant direct relationship between duration and amount os REM sleep and the degree of learning during wakefulness and, at the end, with the degree of consolidation of such learning. Interesting too is the controversy around learning durin sleeping. Finally, the findings around hemispheric asymmetry in the generation of dreaming is another field of active investigation.