While patients lay unconscious under anesthesia, their brains kept decoding stories and preparing for what came next - Medical Xpress
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While patients lay unconscious under anesthesia, their brains kept decoding stories and preparing for what came next - Medical Xpress

Source:Medical Xpress
Author:Baylor College of Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia. The findings, published in Nature, challenge what we know about the role of conscious…