Auditory and Visual Evoked Potentials as a Function of Sleep Deprivation and Irregular Sleep

Abstract

This report describes progress in a program of research concerned with whether event-related brain potentials (ERPs) provide a reliable, valid, and practical way of predicting performance. Two objectives of the program were to develop the capacity to measure, analyze, and interpret ERPs and to demonstrate that ERPs are sensitive to factors influencing performance. Experiments are described that show ERP variation in studies of orienting responses, habituation, and Pavlovian conditioning. Additional experiments show ERP changes in relation to time-of-day and ultradian variation in performance. A final experiment describes the relationship between ERP and performance changes during the wake/sleep transition. These experiments encourage the view that ERPs are closely related to both arousal and cognitive factors influencing performance. (rwj)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 15, 1989
Accession Number
ADA228488

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  • John R. Harsh

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Arousal (Physiology)
  • Biological Rhythms
  • Circadian Rhythms
  • Cognition
  • Computer Programs
  • Electrophysiological Phenomena
  • Frequency Bands
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Materials
  • Neurology
  • Psychology
  • Psychophysiology
  • Reaction Time
  • Sleep Deprivation

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  • Psychology

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  • Circadian Sleep-Wake Regulation and Chronobiology
  • Neuroscience
  • Theoretical Analysis.