Age increases brain complexity

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-68

  Anokhin, Andrey P ^a,b   Birbaumer, Niels ^b   Lutzenberger, Werner ^b   Nikolaev, Andrey ^a   Vogel, Friedrich ^c  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; Dimensional complexity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN MATURATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0030199736     PISSN: 00134694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0921-884X(96)95573-3     Document Type: Article

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