Non-threatening familiar sounds can go unnoticed during sleep despite the fact that they
enter our brain by exciting the auditory nerves. Extracellular cortical recordings in the primary
auditory cortex of rodents show ...
During the deep phases of sleep we do not normally wake up
by a thunder, but we nevertheless notice it when awake. The
exact same sound gets to our ears and cortex through the
thalamus and still, it triggers two very ...
