Beta Brain Waves as an Index of Alertness

Journal/Book: Reprinted from Science 1962 Vol. 137 No. 3529 pages 533-534. 1962;

Abstract: Veterans Administration Hospital and Neurology Division. Department of Psychology University of Utah Salt Lake City Abstract. Reaction times of human subjects are reliably shorter when the signal to respond is given during spontaneous low voltage fast (beta) brain waves than they are when the signal is given during spontaneous alpha waves. The mean difference of 12 milliseconds is however trivial in comparison to the advantage to be expected from forewarning. . . .

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