Erika M. Yamazaki

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As of September 2026: Leads NIH-funded sleep apnea research in partnership with Paller's lab

Northwestern University neuroscientists have found that humans react faster when exhaling than when inhaling. In a sustained-attention test with 35 adults, responses during exhalation were on average 41 milliseconds quicker than during inhalation — about 1/25th of a second.

Updated Sep 29