Farhad Razi

• Doctor of Philosophy
• PostDoc Position at Radboud University

Perceptual awareness of auditory stimuli decreases from wakefulness to sleep, largely due to reduced cortical responsiveness. During wakefulness, neural responses to external stimuli exhibit a broader spatiotemporal propagation pattern compared to deep sleep. A potential mechanism for this phenomenon is the synaptic upscaling of cortical excitatory...

Simple Summary During the deep phases of sleep we do not normally wake up by a thunder, but we nevertheless notice it when awake. The exact same sound gets to our ears and cortex through the thalamus and still, it triggers two very different responses. There is growing experimental evidence that these two states of the brain—sleep and wakefulness—d...