Standing sentinel during human sleep: Continued evaluation of environmental stimuli in the absence of consciousness.
Neuroimage September 1, 2018 Christine Blume, Renata Del Giudice, Malgorzata Wislowska et al.
While it is a well-established finding that subjects' own names (SON) and familiar voices are salient during wakefulness, we here investigated processing of environmental stimuli during sleep including deep N3 and REM sleep. Besides the effects of sleep depth we investigated how sleep-specific EEG patterns (i.e. sleep spindles and slow oscillations [SOs]) relate to stimulus processing. Using...