Pinch Me, I'm Dreaming
The average length of the sleep cycle
What is 90 minutes?
(mean from study was 92 min)
The minimum amount of time needed before a neuron can fire another action potential
What is the absolute refractory period?
The quantity of toys made available for monkeys to play with during each trial
What is 2 (one wheeled, one plush)?
Region of the brain known to be involved with memory
What is the hippocampus?
A research method that studies various groups of people at one point in time
What is a cross-sectional study?
The apparatus participants used to provide self-report data about their dreams
What is a voice recorder?
Brain waves that are present during "deep sleep"
What are delta waves?
The behavioral category used if a monkey used their mouth/hands to bite/tear a toy
What is "destroy"?
What is the occipital lobe?
The average amount of time participants spent doing homework exercises
What is 22.6 hours (total) OR 27 minutes (daily)?
Dream narratives of shooting basketballs, watching people throw tomatoes at each other, and driving a car supported this aim of the study
Are eye-movement patterns related to dream content?
The branch of the nervous system that includes the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions
What is the autonomic nervous system?
The toy category that female monkeys significantly preferred
What is neither/no preference?
On an MRI scan, the term used to refer to clusters of neural axons
What is white matter?
Grey matter increases in this region of the brain suggested participants had learning experiences during the mindfulness course
What is the left hippocampus?
The IV used to measure perception of dream duration
What is waking after 5 or 15 min of REM sleep?
The part of a neuron that specializes in receiving information from other neurons
What is a dendrite?
The assumed link between behavior similarities of humans and primates
What are hormones/hormonal differences?
A blind person's visual cortex becoming involved with processing other senses is an example of this
What is neuroplasticity?
The three FFMQ subscales that showed significant increases between the pre- and post-tests
What are acting with awareness, observing, and non-judging?
Participants woken in nREM sleep were more likely to report having a dream if woken at this point in the sleep cycle
What is within 8 minutes after REM sleep?
The machine used to record rapid eye movements during sleep
What is an electroencephalograph (EEG)?
The calculation used to determine the extent that male monkeys preferred wheeled toys or female monkeys preferred plush toys
What is magnitude of preference?
The area of the brain involved with speech production
What is Broca's area?
Why Holzel's longitudinal design could be considered an experiment
Used a control group OR manipulated the IV (enrollment in mindfulness course)