?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Conceptual+coordination+bridges+information+processing+and+neurophysiology&rft.creator=Clancey%2C+William&rft.subject=Behavioral+%26+Brain+Sciences&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Neuropsychology&rft.description=Information+processing+theories+of+memory+and+skills+can+be+reformulated+in+terms+of+how+categories+are+physically+and+temporally+related%2C+a+process+called+conceptual+coordination.+Dreaming+can+then+be+understood+as+a+story+understanding+process+in+which+two+mechanisms+found+in+everyday+comprehension+are+missing%3A+conceiving+sequences+(chunking+categories+in+time+as+a+higher-order+categorization)+and+coordinating+across+modalities+(e.g.%2C+relating+the+sound+of+a+word+and+the+image+of+its+meaning).++On+this+basis%2C+we+can+readily+identify+isomorphisms+between+dream+phenomenology+and+neurophysiology%2C+and+explain+the+function+of+dreaming+as+facilitating+future+coordination+of+sequential%2C+cross-modal+categorization+(i.e.%2C+REM+sleep+lowers+activation+thresholds%2C+%C2%93unlearning%C2%94).&rft.date=2000-12&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1989%2F3%2FClanceySleepDreams.pdf&rft.identifier=++Clancey%2C+William++(2000)+Conceptual+coordination+bridges+information+processing+and+neurophysiology.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1989%2F