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Deep asleep? You can still follow simple commands, study finds

Experiments suggest that sleep doesn’t cut you off from the outside world as much as scientists had thought.
  1. Anil Oza
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Scientists once considered sleep to be like a shade getting drawn over a window between the brain and the outside world: when the shade is closed, the brain stops reacting to outside stimuli.

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Nature 622, 678-679 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03252-7

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