Auditory processing in the sleeping infant brain

Sleep is an essential biological process, critically involved in learning, especially in infancy. Throughout development, brain activity during sleep undergoes important changes before reaching its mature organization. In particular, it is initially characterized by two different stages: quiet and active sleep. While we know that sensory processing is disrupted during sleep, we still lack a quantitative description of how it reduces sensory responses in these two different sleep stages.
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