Brain 'can classify words during sleep'
LONDON. KAZINFORM The brain is still active while we are asleep, say scientists, who found people were able to classify words during their slumber.
Researchers from Cambridge and Paris introduced participants to a word test while awake and found they continued to respond correctly while asleep.
The sleeping brain can perform complex tasks, particularly if the task is automated, the study says.
Further research will now focus on how to take advantage of our sleeping time, BBC News reports.
Writing in the journal Current Biology, the research team set out to study the brain's behaviour while awake and during sleep.
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.