Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2007 - Volume 30, Issue 02  

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The sleeping brain, the states of consciousness, and the human intelligence

Roumen Kirova1

a1 Laboratory of Cognitive Neurodynamics, Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria. ru@bio.bas.bg http://www.bio.bas.bg

Abstract

A large number of experimental results clearly indicate that sleep has an important role for human intelligence. Sleep-wake stages and their specific patterns of brain activation and neuromodulation subserve human memory, states of consciousness, and modes of information processing that strongly relate to intelligence. Therefore, human intelligence should be explained in a broader framework than is implicated by neuroimaging data alone.

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