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Monster project
14 August 2002
Hi David -
Thank you for a great conversation! I look forward to proceeding with
this project. I have a couple of things I urgently need to finish in August,
but after that this is top priority. I may also be able to get things
moving a bit right away.
Here are the references you asked for.
- The BBS reference on dreaming -- Reveonsuo, Antti (2000). The Reinterpretation
of Dreams: An evolutionary hypothesis of the function of dreaming. Full
text (local).
Revonsuo suggests in this special issue of Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (with lots of commentaries) that dreams are designed
to simulate threats.
See also Revonsuo, Antti (2000). Did ancestral humans dream for their
lives? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23. 6 (Dec):1063, and
Revonsuo, Antti and Katja Valli (2000). Dreaming and Consciousness:
Testing the Threat Simulation Theory of the Function of Dreaming.
Psyche 6. 8. Full
text (external).
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Berkeley contact: Phil Cowan, at the time the director of the Institute
of Human Development (IHD), tel. (510) 642-7239 Web
site, was very kind and helpful to Stephanie and me.
Philip Cowan, Director
IHD 2211 Tolman Hall
tel. 643-6095 and 643-5608
fax: 642-7969
Psych 3210 Tolman
tel. 642-2055
email <pcowan@socrates.berkeley.edu>
- The little girl I taught to eat apples off a picture is 23 months
old -- quite a bit older than I realized. At the time she was captured
on film chasing her dad, she was a year old.
- Susan
Perry and Joe
Manson study capuchins and are good friends of mine (including their
infinitely charming daughter Kate, who is around 3). They're in Leipzig
for the next few years, at the MPI, but they also go to their Costa
Rica field site for several months every year.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best wishes,
Francis
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