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Sleep Learning: Your Brain Continues to Process Simple Tasks, Classify Words Subconsciously
The experiment showed that when people were subjected to simple word classification tasks before sleeping, the brain continues to unconsciously make classifications even in sleep."
http://www.medicaldaily.com/sleep-learning-your-brain-continues-process-simple-tasks-classify-words-subconsciously-302746
Source: Kouider, Andrillon T, Barbosa L, et al. Inducing task-relevant responses to speech in the sleeping brain, Current Biology. 2014.