Valentina Elce
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PostDoc @IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy), Sleep, Plasticity and Conscious Experience (SPACE) Group Dream Researcher Linguist «Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask.» (Fox Mulder – X-files, s2 ep12)
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The preprint of our dear “the Semantics of Dreams” is out!
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🚨 New preprint 🚨
"Immersive NREM dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure." We analyzed 1,024 awakenings collected across 196 nights with high-density EEG (256 ch.) to explore the relationship between dreaming and subjective sleep depth.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Immersive NREM dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure
Perceived sleep depth is a key determinant of subjective sleep quality, traditionally thought to reflect unconsciousness and reduced cortical activation. Here, we combined high-density EEG with a seri...
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🧠🧪 New paper in #NCONSC 🧠🧪

What if people who seem unconscious (e.g., Disorders of Consciousness, DoC) could still dream or experience mind wandering?

We explore this possibility in a new review:
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With Jasmine Walter and Jennifer Windt!

#consciousness #dreaming
Do individuals with disorders of consciousness dream and mind wander? Implications for improving diagnosis and understanding patient wellbeing
Abstract. Fluctuations in the presence, experiential quality and contents of consciousness occur naturally during sleep and wakefulness and are core featur
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Save the date!! 🗓️

The 2nd edition of the Summer School on the Neuroscience of Dreaming 💤 will take place 4–8 May 2026 in Lucca, Italy, at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca.

📍 The official website will be released soon: stay tuned for updates!
valentinaelce.bsky.social
🔔New preprint out!

We reviewed how RBD medications affect dream content.

Take home message: the need for standardization and methodological rigor in future studies.

“The effects of RBD Medications on Dream Content: A Critical Review of Evidence” is now available here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Interested in how emotions surface in dreams across the night? In this new paper, Jessica Palmieri, @valentinaelce.bsky.social and I report about the “Nightly dynamics of emotional content in dreams.”

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💤🧠🧪 New article! 🧪🧠💤

After years of effort led by @qualiastructure.bsky.social (Nao Tsuchiya and William Wong), Jenny Windt, Katja Valli, Valdas Noreika and @rherzoga.bsky.social, the Dream database is now published in @natcomms.nature.com

**A dream EEG and mentation database**
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Illustration from Ana Yael
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The preprint of our dear “the Semantics of Dreams” is out!
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📢 The PhD call for "Mind, Brain, and Human Thought" (track: "Experimental Psychology and Psychophysiology") at the IMT School, Lucca is now open!

Join us in the Sleep, Plasticity, and Conscious Experience (SPACE) Lab to explore the science of sleep and dreaming. 🧠💤

Apply here 👉 mbht.imtlucca.it
MBHT@IMT School
PhD Program in Mind, Brain, and Human Thought (MBHT)
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Already enjoyed the preprint very much! Highly recommended!
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Los nazis se han cargado PubMed.
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Another dystopian situation in our biomedical knowledge production system: #PubMed, the database all scientists and students use is down.

This harms science, health care, patients, communities, and policy making: evidence-based medicine requires findability of scientific articles.
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The likelihood to recall a dream in the morning and the ability to remember its content are modulated by a combination of stable individual traits and dynamic night-by-night and seasonal change, according to a study in Communications Psychology. https://go.nature.com/3EKJaCd 🧪
This is figure 3, which shows the predictors of dream recall and memory.
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The Influence of Intentions on Dream Content
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Interesting application of LLMs for the analysis of dream content and task incorporation...
The Influence of Intentions on Dream Content
AbstractStudy Objectives. The
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Very very proud of Giorgia Bontempi who’s presenting her first poster, titled “Dream Recall and Content in Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep Behaviour Disorder”, at the XXXIV conference of the Italian Association of Sleep Medicine (AIMS) in Pisa!
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Last chance to register and submit your project proposal for the #BrainHackLucca2024! Join us December 1-5 at @IMTLucca!

Link to the official website: brainhacklucca.github.io