“…Prob lems with adaptive segmentation include the classifica tion of the segments found and the treatment of the string of labels obtained by this classification, especially in multichannel EEG. For the first task, cluster-analytic methods have been proposed [Creutzfeldt et al, 1985], and for the second, syntactic pattern recognition may be used [Bourne et al, 1981;Baas and Bourne, 1984;Fer ber, 1985Fer ber, , 1986],…”