The laboratory of psychophysiology of sleep and dream

Journal title RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA
Author/s Carlo Cipolli, Vincenzo Natale
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/2
Language Italian Pages 15 P. 129-143 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rip2021oa12602
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Renzo Canestrari was the head of the Institute of Psychology of University of Bologna for more than twenty years, during which he developed several research lines on adult humans. He dedicated two laboratory rooms for investigation on sleep architecture, its time-of-day variation and mental experiences during sleep (MSE). Since 1967 Piero Salzarulo carried out studies on the influence of sensory deprivation and time-of-day on the neurophysiological characteristics of sleep, while Marino Bosinelli investigated the perceptual and emotional features of MSE overall at sleep onset. Canestrari always supported these studies by means of human, financial and technological resources, so that Salzarulo and Bosinelli could organize two teams of young researchers. Many studies investigated sleep stage- and cycle-related variations in the content and structure characteristics of MSE, the functioning of the cognitive processes involved in MSE generation, the access to memory sources to be converted into MSE as contents. The findings obtained by the two teams using distinct, but complementary cognitive approaches to MSE were internationally appreciated and considered as the more consistent programmatic research carried on outside the Nord America in the 1970-80s.These lines of research, as well the further one of sleep chronopsychology, are still active in the same laboratory.

Keywords: ; psychophysiology of sleep; mental sleep experience; cognitive process during sleep; chronopsychology

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Carlo Cipolli, Vincenzo Natale, Il laboratorio di psicofisiologia del sonno e del sogno in "RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA" 2/2021, pp 129-143, DOI: 10.3280/rip2021oa12602