
Focus - When We're Unconscious
How We're Wired
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The Effects of ECG on Crystallose Patients
So what we're measuring here is my heartbeat playing sounds back to my ears that are in accordance with my heart. And I'm obviously conscious. So this is what we'd expect. Hopefully. Whereas if I was asleep, would we see the same pattern? Essentially this integration between your heartbeat and sound is something that you cannot be aware of, but your brain can recognize it no matter whether you are awake or asleep or in a corner. It's the extent of this brain response or cardiac response to the violation of this pattern that changed as an actual consciousness goes down,. One of the main benefits of this technique is that doing an ECG, measuring heart activity as we did in the lab,
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