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Brain Continues to Process Language and Predict Words During Anaesthesia, Study ShowsEuronews
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Brain Continues to Process Language and Predict Words During Anaesthesia, Study Shows

A study of epilepsy patients published in Nature revealed that neural circuits continue to encode sound, detect odd tones and even anticipate words from podcasts while patients were unconscious. Researchers observed real-time speech processing and predictive coding typically asso…

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Study Finds Hippocampus Continues Processing Speech and Grammar Under General Anaesthesiasciencealert.com
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Study Finds Hippocampus Continues Processing Speech and Grammar Under General Anaesthesia

A study published today in Nature shows that the hippocampus remains active under general anaesthesia, parsing grammar and meaning of spoken words. Researchers recorded individual neurons in seven patients anaesthetized with propofol during epilepsy surgery. The findings indicate…

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