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Marta Iraola Iribarren

The brain doesn't switch off under anaesthesia – it keeps processing language, study finds

Even under anaesthesia, some parts of the brain remain active and can identify and process language, a study has found.

The results, published in the journal Nature, found that neural circuits continue to encode and respond to stimuli even without consciousness.

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