Search Results - "Blagrove, Mark"
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Characteristics of the memory sources of dreams: A new version of the content-matching paradigm to take mundane and remote memories into account
Published in PloS one (11-10-2017)“…Several studies have demonstrated that dream content is related to the waking life of the dreamer. However, the characteristics of the memory sources…”
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Paranormal experiences, sensory-processing sensitivity, and the priming of pareidolia
Published in PloS one (14-09-2022)“…This investigation tested the effect of priming on pareidolia (the hearing of illusory words in ambiguous stimuli). Participants (41 women, 20 men, mean age…”
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Sleep‐dependent memory consolidation is related to perceived value of learned material
Published in Journal of sleep research (01-06-2017)“…Summary Although many types of newly encoded information can be consolidated during sleep, an enhanced effect has been found for memories tagged as relevant to…”
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Testing the Empathy Theory of Dreaming: The Relationships Between Dream Sharing and Trait and State Empathy
Published in Frontiers in psychology (20-06-2019)“…In general, dreams are a novel but realistic simulation of waking social life, with a mixture of characters, motivations, scenarios, and positive and negative…”
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Correction: Characteristics of the memory sources of dreams: A new version of the content-matching paradigm to take mundane and remote memories into account
Published in PloS one (21-02-2018)“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185262.]…”
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Sleep does not cause false memories on a story-based test of suggestibility
Published in Consciousness and cognition (01-07-2017)“…•Sleep is known to be involved in the consolidation of memory.•Sleep has been proposed to contribute to the formation of false memory.•No effect of sleep on…”
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Frontal Brain Activity and Subjective Arousal During Emotional Picture Viewing in Nightmare Sufferers
Published in Frontiers in neuroscience (30-09-2020)“…Nightmares are intensely negative dreams that awaken the dreamer. Frequent nightmares are thought to reflect an executive deficit in regulating arousal. Within…”
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Daydreams incorporate recent waking life concerns but do not show delayed (‘dream-lag’) incorporations
Published in Consciousness and cognition (01-02-2018)“…•Waking life events and concerns are incorporated into daydreams and dreams.•The timescale of these incorporations is known for dreams, but not for…”
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Dreaming and insight
Published in Frontiers in psychology (2013)“…This paper addresses claims that dreams can be a source of personal insight. Whereas there has been anecdotal backing for such claims, there is now tangential…”
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Assessing the dream-lag effect for REM and NREM stage 2 dreams
Published in PloS one (26-10-2011)“…This study investigates evidence, from dream reports, for memory consolidation during sleep. It is well-known that events and memories from waking life can be…”
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Assessing the Day-Residue and Dream-Lag Effects Using the Identification of Multiple Correspondences Between Dream Reports and Waking Life Diaries
Published in Dreaming (New York, N.Y.) (01-06-2014)“…Several studies have found a high incorporation of waking life events into dreams that occur during the following night (day-residue effect), then a decrease…”
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Comparing personal insight gains due to consideration of a recent dream and consideration of a recent event using the Ullman and Schredl dream group methods
Published in Frontiers in psychology (18-06-2015)“…There have been reports and claims in the psychotherapeutic literature that the consideration of recent dreams can result in personal realizations and insight…”
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Understanding the Associations of Prenatal Androgen Exposure on Sleep Physiology, Circadian Proteins, Anthropometric Parameters, Hormonal Factors, Quality of Life, and Sex Among Healthy Young Adults: Protocol for an International, Multicenter Study
Published in JMIR research protocols (01-10-2021)“…Background The ratio of the second finger length to the fourth finger length (2D:4D ratio) is considered to be negatively correlated with prenatal androgen…”
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An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits
Published in Journal of research in personality (01-12-2024)“…•Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) predicts the detection and identification of visually degraded stimuli.•Individuals high in SPS may have low perceptual…”
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Testing the theory of Differential Susceptibility to nightmares: The interaction of Sensory Processing Sensitivity with the relationship of low mental wellbeing to nightmare frequency and nightmare distress
Published in Journal of sleep research (01-06-2021)“…Summary Propensity to have nightmares has been theorised in terms of diathesis–stress models, with this propensity being seen as negative or even pathological…”
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Animals in Dreams of Children, Adolescents, and Adults: The UK Library Study
Published in Imagination, cognition and personality (01-09-2021)“…Animal dreams have fascinated mankind for ages. Empirical research indicated that children dream more often about animals than adults and dogs, cats, and…”
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The ability to self-tickle following Rapid Eye Movement sleep dreaming
Published in Consciousness and cognition (01-06-2006)“…Self-produced tactile stimulation usually feels less tickly—is perceptually attenuated—relative to the same stimulation produced externally. This is not true,…”
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Sensory Processing Sensitivity: Associations with the detection of real degraded stimuli, and reporting of illusory stimuli and paranormal experiences
Published in Personality and individual differences (01-07-2021)“…There are differences in Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) within many species. In humans high SPS refers to greater responsivity to stimuli, slower, deeper…”
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Combining Presleep Cognitive Training and REM-Sleep Stimulation in a Laboratory Morning Nap for Lucid Dream Induction
Published in Psychology of consciousness (Washington, D.C.) (01-12-2023)“…Previous experiments combining cognitive techniques and sleep disruption have been relatively successful in inducing at-home lucid dreams (LD) over training…”
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The effects of improving sleep on mental health (OASIS): a randomised controlled trial with mediation analysis
Published in The Lancet. Psychiatry (01-10-2017)“…Sleep difficulties might be a contributory causal factor in the occurrence of mental health problems. If this is true, improving sleep should benefit…”
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