Vocabulary

Academic Word List

  • clinicians
  • mammals
  • behavioral
  • Aristotle
  • Darwin
  • physiologists
  • electro- (prefix)
  • manifestations
  • Neuroscience

Other Vocabulary

  • myths
  • mystic
  • dream
  • targets
  • buried
  • transcription
  • research
  • discover
  • mechanisms

Exercise

Please click the Exercise link to continue and do Exercises 1 and 2.


Pre-Reading

Use the following prompts to begin a discussion. Try to be sure everyone in your group gives their opinion and explains why they hold that opinion before moving on to the next question.

  1. What do you know about:
    • sleep?
    • dreams?
    • Neurobiology?
  2. Explain something about sleep and dreams from your country or culture that you think is unique.

Exercise

Please click the Exercise link to continue and do Exercise 3.


Reading

Read the title of the Reading passage. In your group, discuss what this means to you and try to predict what the Reading may be about.

Neurobiology of Sleep and Dreams


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