fMRI lag structure during waking up from early sleep stages.
Cortex September 1, 2021 Santiago Alcaide, Jacobo Sitt, Tomoyasu Horikawa et al. 13 citations
The brain mechanisms by which we transition from sleep to a conscious state remain largely unknown in humans, partly because of methodological challenges. Here we study a pre-existing dataset of waking up participants originally designed for a study of dreaming (Horikawa, Tamaki, Miyawaki, & Kamitani, 2013) and suggest that suddenly awakening from early sleep stages results from a two-stage...
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.06.005 (opens in new tab)
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Consciousness
Waking up
FMRI