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Sleeping subjects were presented with simple nouns and they were asked to respond to them. Mieroswitch pressings and distribution of K complexes indicated that subjects could report to nonemotive verbal information during sleep. The underlying processes were examined on the basis of generalizations to distractors related to the subjects in sound or meaning (within or across languages).
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This experiment was conducted at the Sleep and Dream Laboratory at the Boston State Hospital. It could never have been executed without the kind help of Ernst Hartmann, who has allowed me to use the facilities of his laboratory. I am also grateful to him for helpful discussions and encouragement. Thanks are extended to Jack Carroll, James Cravens, Thomas Haggestad, Ken Parulsky, Vincent Stanton, and Greta Unger for their help in the preparation and execution of the experiment, and to Maya Bar-Hillel and David Navon for comments on the manuscript.
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Shanon, B. Semantic processing during sleep. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 14, 382–384 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329486
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