Publications by authors named "Emma Chabani"

Sleep has long been considered as a state of behavioral disconnection from the environment, without reactivity to external stimuli. Here we questioned this 'sleep disconnection' dogma by directly investigating behavioral responsiveness in 49 napping participants (27 with narcolepsy and 22 healthy volunteers) engaged in a lexical decision task. Participants were instructed to frown or smile depending on the stimulus type.

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  • Dreams create a unique, often bizarre, reality that feels as authentic as waking life, yet remain difficult to study due to issues with memory and distortion in dream reports.
  • Researchers discovered that during lucid dreaming—where individuals are aware they are dreaming—subjects could respond to external questions using eye movements and facial muscle contractions while in REM sleep.
  • This study, which included participants with varying levels of lucid dreaming experience, showcases a groundbreaking method for real-time communication about dreams and opens up new avenues for understanding and exploring the cognitive processes involved in dreaming.
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At the extreme spectrum of consciousness during sleep, some patients with rare hypersomnias reported experiencing a specific night 'blackout' when sleeping, i.e., an absence of experiences or recall of them from sleep onset to offset.

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Color is continuous, yet we group colors into discrete categories associated with color names (e.g., yellow, blue).

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