Brain 'can classify words during sleep'
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Re: Brain 'can classify words during sleep'
#2> Once asleep, a new list of words was tested on participants to ensure that the brain had to work out the meaning of the words before classifying them using the buttons. Their brain activity showed they continued to respond accurately, the researchers said, although it happened more slowly.
EEG-based interrogation of sleeping people?!
Re: Brain 'can classify words during sleep'
#3> Once asleep, a new list of words was tested on participants to ensure that the brain had to work out the meaning of the words before classifying them using the buttons. Their brain activity showed they continued to respond accurately, the researchers said, although it happened more slowly. EEG-based interrogation of sleeping people?!
I'm wondering the same thing. The article is rather vague about how they gave "a new list of words to participants" while they were sleeping...
Re: Brain 'can classify words during sleep'
#4Re: Brain 'can classify words during sleep'
#5> Once asleep, a new list of words was tested on participants to ensure that the brain had to work out the meaning of the words before classifying them using the buttons. Their brain activity showed they continued to respond accurately, the researchers said, although it happened more slowly. EEG-based interrogation of sleeping people?!
I'm wondering the same thing. The article is rather vague about how they gave "a new list of words to participants" while they were sleeping...
If OpenBCI ships soon, people can try this at home :) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openbci/openbci-an-open...
Re: Brain 'can classify words during sleep'
#6Seems like a "filler" piece, not much info there. Sleep isn't "on/off", but normally goes through levels of consciousness from wakefulness to unaware. Not surprisingly we might be able to handle a simple task.
I remember a time when I was "on call". The phone rang at 04:00. It wound up being a long discussion, necessary to manage a complex problem. Strangely, when I got to work I had no recollection at all of what happened overnight, and stunned when I found out what I'd done (correctly too).
Handling a few words wouldn't be such a big deal.
Re: Brain 'can classify words during sleep'
#7I remember when I first moved to Germany from the UK. I was immersed in a foreign language and my brain was constantly telling me I needed to go to sleep, especially after social occasions where the language input was extreme.
I pictured my brain sorting out words and linkages as I slept. Makes sense for the brain to require partial downtime for a index reorganisation.
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#8Journal paper, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214...
"This study uncovers a promising avenue to study nonconscious processes ... although sleeping participants may continue to process information in a goal-oriented manner, this task set is presumably maintained without the participant being conscious of it ... studying sleep in this context allows pushing further the limits and extents of nonconscious processes and establishing the properties of a broader and more natural type of cognitive unconscious."
Another article, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140911125806.ht...
"The study also extends earlier work on subliminal processing by showing that speech processing and other complex tasks "can be done not only without being aware of what you perceive, but [also] without being aware at all." Kouider suspects that such unconscious processing isn't limited by the complexity of the task, but by whether it can be made automatic or not."
Re: Brain 'can classify words during sleep'
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm wondering the same thing. The article is rather vague about how they gave "a new list of words to participants" while they were sleeping...
If OpenBCI ships soon, people can try this at home :) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openbci/openbci-an-open...
That is bloody awesome!
Re: Brain 'can classify words during sleep'
#10I remember when I first moved to Germany from the UK. I was immersed in a foreign language and my brain was constantly telling me I needed to go to sleep, especially after social occasions where the language input was extreme. I pictured my brain sorting out words and linkages as I slept. Makes sense for the brain to require partial downtime for a index reorganisation.
And garbage collection.