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Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community.  Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience  Ken discusses the recent work in his lab that allows communication with subjects while they experience lucid dreams. This new paradigm opens many avenues to study the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, sleep, dreams, memory, and learning, and to improve and optimize sleep for cognition. Ken and his team are developing a Lucid Dreaming App which is freely available via his lab. We also discuss much of his work on memory and learning in general and specifically related to sleep, like reactivating specific memories during sleep to improve learning. Ken's Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory.Twitter: @kap101.The Lucid Dreaming App.Related papersMemory and Sleep: How Sleep Cognition Can Change the Waking Mind for the Better.Does memory reactivation during sleep support generalization at the cost of memory specifics?Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep. 0:00 - Intro2:48 - Background and types of memory14:44 -Consciousness and memory23:32 - Phases and sleep and wakefulness28:19 - Sleep, memory, and learning33:50 - Targeted memory reactivation48:34 - Problem solving during sleep51:50 - 2-way communication with lucid dreamers1:01:43 - Confounds to the paradigm1:04:50 - Limitations and future studies1:09:35 - Lucid dreaming app1:13:47 - How sleep can inform AI1:20:18 - Advice for students

<a href="https://www.patreon.com/braininspired" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a> to get full episodes and join the Discord community. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/braininspired" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://braininspired.co/open/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience</a> <a href="https://braininspired.co/open/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Ken discusses the recent work in his lab that allows communication with subjects while they experience lucid dreams. This new paradigm opens many avenues to study the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, sleep, dreams, memory, and learning, and to improve and optimize sleep for cognition. Ken and his team are developing a Lucid Dreaming App which is <a href="https://pallerlab.psych.northwestern.edu/dream.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">freely available via his lab</a>. We also discuss much of his work on memory and learning in general and specifically related to sleep, like reactivating specific memories during sleep to improve learning. <ul><li><a href="https://pallerlab.psych.northwestern.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ken's Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory</a>.</li><li>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/kap101" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@kap101</a>.</li><li><a href="https://pallerlab.psych.northwestern.edu/dream.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Lucid Dreaming App</a>.</li><li>Related papers<ul><li><a href="https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10275880" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Memory and Sleep: How Sleep Cognition Can Change the Waking Mind for the Better</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1074742721000642" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Does memory reactivation during sleep support generalization at the cost of memory specifics?</a></li><li><a href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(21)00059-2.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep.</a></li></ul></li></ul> 0:00 - Intro 2:48 - Background and types of memory 14:44 -Consciousness and memory 23:32 - Phases and sleep and wakefulness 28:19 - Sleep, memory, and learning 33:50 - Targeted memory reactivation 48:34 - Problem solving during sleep 51:50 - 2-way communication with lucid dreamers 1:01:43 - Confounds to the paradigm 1:04:50 - Limitations and future studies 1:09:35 - Lucid dreaming app 1:13:47 - How sleep can inform AI 1:20:18 - Advice for students

BI 133 Ken Paller: Lucid Dreaming, Memory, and Sleep

Dr. Ken Paller, Ph.D. (hhttps://psychology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/profiles/ken-paller.html) is Professor of Psychology and James Padilla Chair in Arts &amp; Sciences, Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program and the Training Program in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition, Fellow of the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, and Fellow of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, at Northwestern University, Department of Psychology. Dr. Paller’s collaborative research with his students and colleagues focuses on human memory, consciousness, and related issues, and recent research publications have examined various themes including sleep’s role in memory and memory dysfunction, sensory processing during sleep to reinforce prior learning, the neural substrates of conscious memory experiences, and the juxtaposition of those memory experiences with various ways in which memory can influence our behavior in the absence of awareness of memory retrieval, such as in the case of intuition. His investigations make use of various behavioral measures of memory, analyses of brain electrical activity from the EEG, patterns of cognitive deficits in neurological patients, and MRI methods. Dr. Paller received a PhD in Neurosciences from UC San Diego following undergraduate training at UCLA. He held postdoctoral positions at Yale, Manchester, and Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the Mind and Life Institute, a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, journal editor at Neuropsychologia, and program committee chair for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. He received the Senator Mark Hatfield Award from the Alzheimer’s Association, and research funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and other federal agencies and private foundations.Support the show

Dr. Ken Paller, Ph.D. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbWpVZ0dWU2hVby1oMlJSSHIycUxRRXJnNzJQd3xBQ3Jtc0tsc0k0dXkyUC0ta2QzYm5yTlRVd3dNLU5rM2xsVFRBNnpXY1ZvaTg5QUhFOVM1RGZueGRLa0RJQkg5WmxPYVVyNVhyLTlsQUJQQW13M2tLMjNYWlctbW9HYml6dTFHcjUyMF9uc0NiNm5MU1Y3MTJIdw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fpsychology.northwestern.edu%2Fpeople%2Ffaculty%2Fcore%2Fprofiles%2Fken-paller.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hhttps://psychology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/profiles/ken-paller.html</a>) is Professor of Psychology and James Padilla Chair in Arts &amp; Sciences, Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program and the Training Program in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition, Fellow of the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, and Fellow of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, at Northwestern University, Department of Psychology. Dr. Paller’s collaborative research with his students and colleagues focuses on human memory, consciousness, and related issues, and recent research publications have examined various themes including sleep’s role in memory and memory dysfunction, sensory processing during sleep to reinforce prior learning, the neural substrates of conscious memory experiences, and the juxtaposition of those memory experiences with various ways in which memory can influence our behavior in the absence of awareness of memory retrieval, such as in the case of intuition. His investigations make use of various behavioral measures of memory, analyses of brain electrical activity from the EEG, patterns of cognitive deficits in neurological patients, and MRI methods. Dr. Paller received a PhD in Neurosciences from UC San Diego following undergraduate training at UCLA. He held postdoctoral positions at Yale, Manchester, and Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the Mind and Life Institute, a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, journal editor at Neuropsychologia, and program committee chair for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. He received the Senator Mark Hatfield Award from the Alzheimer’s Association, and research funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and other federal agencies and private foundations.<a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1531799/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a>

Dr. Ken Paller, Ph.D - Interactive Dreaming Neuroscience In Mental Health, Learning And Creativity

"Do House-Elves Clean Your Brain While You Sleep?" That's the title of an exciting new article featured in Frontiers for Young Minds by Ken Paller. Ken is a professor at Northwestern University where he designs experiments that can provide insights into memory and our conscious experiences. On this episode, he visits The Show About Science Studios to talk about his article, cognitive neuroscience, memory and how sleep effects our brains.

068: Do House-Elves Clean Your Brain While You Sleep with Ken Paller