Visual processing in the sleeping brain
Aleksandra Novozhilova, Özge Yüzgeç, Christina Zavlanou, Laurence Bayer, Guillaume Legendre, Lampros Perogamvros, Martina Kropp, Gabriele Thuman, Sophie Schwartz, Daniel Huber · FENS Forum 2024
Bright lights cause us to wake up, unexpected colors divert our attention and threatening creatures trigger a flight response. These instinctual processes in response to visual cues are robust during wakefulness. However, since the study of visual processes of the sleeping brain has been limited by the closed eyelids, we do not know what neuronal activity these stimuli trigger during sleep. Using sleep compatible virtual reality goggles, we aimed to investigate which visual functions persisted during NREM sleep in humans sleeping with eyes open. Here we designed a series of experiments to elic
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