tim's journal

Habituation, continued

I started looking into EEG-measured habituation because of a comment that Pat had made on my thesis. I had quite casually written something about "waning interest and mental fatigue" limiting how long brain recordings can go for. Pat wanted a more scientific description, hopefully something about the brain's decay in terms of repeated stimuli. The correct term for this phenomenon is 'habituation'. As expected, there was a substantial body of literature on this topic.