EEG equipment for investigating the relationship between sleep and cognition in children and adolescents

从童年到青春期，认知能力发生了深刻的变化，如推理、记忆、计划和认知控制。在此期间，随着认知能力的成熟，各种生活方式因素都会发生重大变化，其中最显著的是睡眠。在此期间，儿童和青少年声称对他们的睡眠习惯有更多的控制，往往会导致睡眠质量变少和质量下降，这可能会对认知产生显著的负面影响。脑电是检查睡眠神经生理学和支持儿童和青少年认知发展的神经功能之间关系的重要工具。我想要两套高密度脑电系统，为我实验室的两间新装修的卧室配备设备。这种设备将使我们能够记录大脑活动，以及眼睛运动和肌肉活动，在实验室里睡觉的参与者。脑电睡眠研究将使我的研究团队能够将睡眠期间的大脑活动与与认知功能的各个方面相关的大脑活动联系起来，如记忆、推理和抑制。该设备还将允许对当前和未来的HQP进行高质量的培训，包括脑电数据采集、睡眠分期和高级脑电分析方面的培训。此外，该设备将在这一领域建立新的合作，促进安大略省理工学院睡眠研究的发展，并促进我们对睡眠和认知之间联系的理解。

The period between childhood and adolescence is characterized by profound changes to cognitive abilities, such as, reasoning, memory, planning and cognitive control. Coinciding with maturing cognitive abilities during this period are significant changes to various lifestyle factors, most notable in sleep. During this time children and adolescents claim more control over their sleeping habits, often resulting in less and poorer quality sleep which can have significantly negative effects on cognition. Electroencephalography is an essential tool for examining the relationship between sleep neurophysiology and neural function supporting cognitive development in children and adolescents. I am requesting two high-density EEG systems to outfit two newly renovated sleep rooms in my lab. This equipment will allow us to record brain activity, as well as eye movements and muscle activity, of sleeping participants in the lab. The EEG sleep studies will allow my research team to link brain activity during sleep to brain activity associated with various aspects of cognitive functioning, such as, memory, reasoning, and inhibition. This equipment will also allow for high-quality training of current and future HQP, which includes training in EEG data acquisition, sleep staging, and advanced EEG analyses. Moreover, the equipment will forge new collaborations in this area, facilitate growth of sleep research at Ontario Tech, and advance our understanding of the links between sleep and cognition.