Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34588694›Full record

ArticleNature2021

Sensory processing during sleep in Drosophila melanogaster.

Alice S French, Quentin Geissmann, Esteban J Beckwith, Giorgio F Gilestro

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Article in Nature, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Alice S FrenchDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Quentin GeissmannDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6546-4306
Esteban J BeckwithInstituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE), UBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Giorgio F GilestroDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK. giorgio@gilest.ro.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7512-8541
Imperial College London · GBConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas · ARUniversity of British Columbia · CA

Funding

Wellcome Trust 104931/Z/14/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During sleep, most animal species enter a state of reduced consciousness characterized by a marked sensory disconnect. Yet some processing of the external world must remain intact, given that a sleeping animal can be awoken by intense stimuli (for example, a loud noise or a bright light) or by soft but qualitatively salient stimuli (for example, the sound of a baby cooing or hearing one's own name

Indexed as

AnimalsDrosophila melanogasterMaleNeuronsOdorantsOlfactory PerceptionPerceptionPhysical StimulationSensationSleepSmell

Identifiers

PMID34588694
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