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SUBMITTER: Dang-Vu TT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3174676 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dang-Vu Thien Thanh TT Bonjean Maxime M Schabus Manuel M Boly Mélanie M Darsaud Annabelle A Desseilles Martin M Degueldre Christian C Balteau Evelyne E Phillips Christophe C Luxen André A Sejnowski Terrence J TJ Maquet Pierre P
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110906 37
Humans are less responsive to the surrounding environment during sleep. However, the extent to which the human brain responds to external stimuli during sleep is uncertain. We used simultaneous EEG and functional MRI to characterize brain responses to tones during wakefulness and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. Sounds during wakefulness elicited responses in the thalamus and primary auditory cortex. These responses persisted in NREM sleep, except throughout spindles, during which they becam ...[more]