Operant Control of Occipital Theta Rhythm Affects Performance in a Radar Monitoring Task
- 1 March 1974
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 183 (4127), 871-873
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.183.4127.871
Abstract
Detection efficiency of human observers deteriorates rapidly in monotonous monitoring tasks; this effect (the vigilance decrement) has been associated with increased theta band activity in the electroencephalogram. Suppression of theta activity by operant methods enhances monitoring efficiency, whereas theta augmentation further degrades task performance. These results demonstrate a lawful relationship between operantly regulated cortical activity and behavior in man.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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