“…Here, N400 effects are described as weaker, partial and delayed compared to wakefulness (Bastuji et al, 2002;Brualla et al, 1998;Daltrozzo et al, 2012;Davis et al, 2007;Ibáñez et al, 2006;Rohaut et al, 2015;Steppacher et al, 2016;Strauss and Dehaene, 2019). It has been argued that during sleep, there is decreased long-distance connectivity between brain regions (Boly et al, 2012;Massimini et al, 2005;Spoormaker et al, 2012;Tagliazucchi et al, 2013), and that the sleeping brain may still process semantic information, but in a purely feedforward manner (Strauss and Dehaene, 2019). In the vegetative state (no conscious awareness), it has been found that long-distance connectivity between frontal and temporal regions is disrupted (Boly et al, 2011).…”