ERPs studies of cognitive processing during sleepFootnote

The authors would like to thank Michele Dufey and Sebastian Bacquet for their participation in a previous version of manuscript. This work was partially supported by a DAAD Grant (PKZ:A/07/71171) and Universidad Diego Portales Grant (Laboratorio de Neurociencias) to A.I.

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