How sleeping minds decide: State-specific reconfigurations of lexical decision-making.
PLoS Computational Biology February 1, 2026 Tao Xia, Chuan-Peng Hu, Başak Türker et al.
Sleep has traditionally been conceptualized as a state of cognitive disconnection, yet emerging evidence indicates that decision-making capacities persist across sleep stages. Here, we elucidate the computational mechanisms underlying real-time lexical decision-making during polysomnographically-verified sleep, using facial electromyography and hierarchical drift diffusion modeling in both...