- The electrical recording of muscle activity (timing/ strength of contractions) which helps track change in muscle tension during the stages of sleep

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- Electroencephalography (EEG)
- Electro-oculography (EOG)
- Electromyography (EMG)

Analysis of human sleep

- A series of commands targeted to the muscles, which occurs before a behavior has been initiated 
- Illustrates that everyday behavior is planned, although commands may change based upon the outside response to a behavior 
- Can be measured with electromyography 

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Breedlove, S. & Watson, N. (2017). Behavioral neuroscience, eighth edition. Oxford University Press.

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Electroencephalography (EEG) is a technique used to obtain a measure of the brain's overall electrical activity. It involves placing an array of electrodes on a person's scalp to record brainwaves. The resulting data provides high-precision information, accurate to the millisecond, about the frequency and amplitude of these waves, making it ideal for applications like sleep studies where precise spatial information is not required.

Electroencephalography (EEG)

The electrical recording of eye movements which help identify stages of sleep.

Electro-oculography (EOG)

Electromyography (EMG)

A sleep researcher is studying a particular stage of sleep characterized by active brain wave patterns, rapid eye movements, and a temporary, near-complete paralysis of the body's voluntary muscles. To precisely identify the moment this muscle paralysis begins, which measurement would provide the most direct evidence?

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- Researchers have questioned whether the same type of  motor planning mechanisms are used in speech versus physical movement of the mouth (known as oromotor activity)
- Ultimately, they found both speech and oromotor activities use the same neural networks associated with a specific type of motor planning but both activities had different "dynamics" of motor planning (meaning different regions of the brain were involved at different "levels" when presented with a certain stimulus that activates either speech or oromotor movement)
- These findings support both the integrative and task-dependent model 

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