Sleep and Sleep medicine are hot topics in medicine as well as neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience. How the auditory system functions during sleep, and what impact that has on the brain, is still not well understood. This book shows a different viewpoint on sleep, integrating a sensory system in the whole brain and focusing on physiological conditions. Moreover, it exhibits the coordination among evoked potentials, fMRI, PET, SPECT, lesions, etc., together with electrophysiological online data. * Presents diverse experimental viewpoints from the beginning of classical electroencephalography to the more recent imaging, single units, electro-magneto-encephalography studies, etc. * Includes classic data as well as new data based in the existing literature and on the long scientific research lines (auditory and sleep) developed by the author and coworkers on this subject since 1963

1. General Introduction; 2. Auditory System Organization and its Physiologic Basis; 3. Physiologic Basis of Sleep; 4. Information Precessing; 5. Auditory Information Processing during Sleep; 6. Auditory Influences on Sleep; 7. Conclusions