ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses various human processes and their relation to EEG activity. The sections concerned with sensory, attentional, and perceptual mechanisms are followed by a brief treatment of EEG during classical and instrumental conditioning (can a person learn to self-regulate brainwave activity?). A sample question dealt with under the heading of "attention" concerns brain activity related to efficient signal detection during a "vigil." Other issues considered in this chapter include the nature of EEG patterns during different stages of sleep, depth of sleep and capacity to respond, ability to learn during sleep, and dreaming and the EEG. Additional issues that are examined include the effects of presleep activity on sleeping EEG, and EEG changes that occur after sleep deprivation.
