How Does the Brain Fall Asleep? New Lecture on Sleep Onset and the Cognitive Shuffle
Why do we sometimes struggle to fall asleep even when exhausted? I recently gave a lecture at the University of Ottawa’s sleep laboratory, led by Dr. Rebecca Robillard, exploring the cognitive and neural processes involved in falling asleep, and how the cognitive shuffle taps into them. The lecture introduces somnolent information-processing (SIP) theory, which seeks