Cognitive processing during the transition to sleep

Archives Italiennes de Biologie

Volumn 150, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 140-154

  Goupil, L ^a   Bekinschtein, T A ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Awareness; Hypnagogic state; Sleep; Transitions of consciousness; Wakefulness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84872367178     PISSN: 00039829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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