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Brain Signals Under Anesthesia Reveal Language Processing
Key Takeaways
- Researchers recorded hippocampal activity during epilepsy surgery under general anesthesia.
- Neuropixels probes monitored signals from hundreds of individual neurons.
- The brain analyzed language, recognized word types and predicted upcoming words.
- The work distinguishes sophisticated processing from conscious awareness.
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