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Comment author: morganism 24 September 2016 11:59:49PM 1 point [-]

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.