Writing in the journal Current Biology, the research team set out to study the brain's behaviour while awake and during sleep.
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This explains some everyday life experiences such as our sensitivity to our name in our sleep, or to the specific sound of our alarm clock”
Using an electroencephalogram (EEG), they recorded the brain activity of participants while they were asked to classify spoken words as either animals or objects by pressing a button