ABSTRACT
Many longtime EEG researchers still experience a degree of fascination and awe as they watch the pens of their physiological recorders trace out the patterns of electrical activity occurring at that instant of time in the human brain. It is very difficult to convey to an audience or a reader the sense of wonderment as the pens vibrate and quiver to the changing frequencies and amplitudes of the various brain waves. From the very beginning, the fascinating nature of EEG activity, and the fact that it was brain generated, encouraged scientists to study relationships between brain waves and behavior. Some kinds of relationships, which seemed very logical at first, have proved very elusive to establish. One example is the effort expended in attempts to relate intelligence to EEG activity. No doubt this has been due, at least in part, to the tremendous complexity of the brain itself, and to difficulties in the interpretation of large masses of EEG data. Nevertheless, researchers have pursued questions of brain wave-behavior relationships, and a great deal of effort has been expended on this topic.
