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  "textContent": "Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia. The findings, published in Nature, challenge what we know about the role of consciousness and cognition, and could open new ways of understanding memory, language and brain-computer interfaces.",
  "title": "While patients lay unconscious under anesthesia, their brains kept decoding stories and preparing for what came next"
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