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Predictive coding, multisensory integration, and attentional control: A multicomponent framework for lucid dreaming
Lucid dreaming (LD) is a mental state in which we realize not being awake but are dreaming while asleep. It often involves vivid, perceptually intense dream images as well as peculiar kinesthetic sensations, such as flying, levitating, or out-of-body experiences. LD is in the cross-spotlight of cogn...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9636904/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36279459 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2123418119 |
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author | Simor, Péter Bogdány, Tamás Peigneux, Philippe |
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description | Lucid dreaming (LD) is a mental state in which we realize not being awake but are dreaming while asleep. It often involves vivid, perceptually intense dream images as well as peculiar kinesthetic sensations, such as flying, levitating, or out-of-body experiences. LD is in the cross-spotlight of cognitive neuroscience and sleep research as a particular case to study consciousness, cognition, and the neural background of dream experiences. Here, we present a multicomponent framework for the study and understanding of neurocognitive mechanisms and phenomenological aspects of LD. We propose that LD is associated with prediction error signals arising during sleep and occurring at higher or lower levels of the processing hierarchy. Prediction errors are resolved by generating a superordinate self-model able to integrate ambiguous stimuli arriving from sensory periphery and higher-order cortical regions. While multisensory integration enables lucidity maintenance and contributes to peculiar kinesthetic experiences, attentional control facilitates multisensory integration by dynamically regulating the balance between the influence of top-down mental models and the precision weighting of bottom-up sensory inputs. Our novel framework aims to link neural correlates of LD with current concepts of sleep and arousal regulation and provide testable predictions on interindividual differences in LD as well as neurocognitive mechanisms inducing lucid dreams. |
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spelling | pubmed-96369042022-11-06 Predictive coding, multisensory integration, and attentional control: A multicomponent framework for lucid dreaming Simor, Péter Bogdány, Tamás Peigneux, Philippe Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Perspective Lucid dreaming (LD) is a mental state in which we realize not being awake but are dreaming while asleep. It often involves vivid, perceptually intense dream images as well as peculiar kinesthetic sensations, such as flying, levitating, or out-of-body experiences. LD is in the cross-spotlight of cognitive neuroscience and sleep research as a particular case to study consciousness, cognition, and the neural background of dream experiences. Here, we present a multicomponent framework for the study and understanding of neurocognitive mechanisms and phenomenological aspects of LD. We propose that LD is associated with prediction error signals arising during sleep and occurring at higher or lower levels of the processing hierarchy. Prediction errors are resolved by generating a superordinate self-model able to integrate ambiguous stimuli arriving from sensory periphery and higher-order cortical regions. While multisensory integration enables lucidity maintenance and contributes to peculiar kinesthetic experiences, attentional control facilitates multisensory integration by dynamically regulating the balance between the influence of top-down mental models and the precision weighting of bottom-up sensory inputs. Our novel framework aims to link neural correlates of LD with current concepts of sleep and arousal regulation and provide testable predictions on interindividual differences in LD as well as neurocognitive mechanisms inducing lucid dreams. National Academy of Sciences 2022-10-24 2022-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9636904/ /pubmed/36279459 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2123418119 Text en Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Perspective Simor, Péter Bogdány, Tamás Peigneux, Philippe Predictive coding, multisensory integration, and attentional control: A multicomponent framework for lucid dreaming |
title | Predictive coding, multisensory integration, and attentional control: A multicomponent framework for lucid dreaming |
title_full | Predictive coding, multisensory integration, and attentional control: A multicomponent framework for lucid dreaming |
title_fullStr | Predictive coding, multisensory integration, and attentional control: A multicomponent framework for lucid dreaming |
title_full_unstemmed | Predictive coding, multisensory integration, and attentional control: A multicomponent framework for lucid dreaming |
title_short | Predictive coding, multisensory integration, and attentional control: A multicomponent framework for lucid dreaming |
title_sort | predictive coding, multisensory integration, and attentional control: a multicomponent framework for lucid dreaming |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9636904/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36279459 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2123418119 |
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