Delayed, Reduced, and Redundant: Information Processing of Prediction Errors during Human Sleep.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience March 18, 2026 Christine Blume, Marina Dauphin, Maria Niedernhuber et al.
During sleep, the human brain transitions to a "sentinel processing mode," enabling the continued processing of environmental stimuli despite the absence of consciousness. We employed advanced information-theoretic analyses, including mutual information (MI) and co-information (co-I), alongside event-related potential (ERP) and temporal generalization analyses (TGA), to characterize auditory...