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

摘要

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. Several experiments describe 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.