Neural Signatures of Conscious Experience During Sleep: A Serial Awakening Study Using High-Density EEG
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) August 20, 2026 Atakan Selte, Steven E. Haworth, Thomas J. Vanasse et al. preprint
Abstract Identifying neural signatures of consciousness remains a central challenge in neuroscience. Sleep offers a tractable model for comparing brain activity in the presence or absence of subjective experience while minimizing behavioral responsiveness confounds. Using overnight 256-electrode high-density EEG in 140 participants and a serial-awakening paradigm, we analyzed 699 non-rapid eye...