Maturation of human visual evoked potentials: 27 weeks conceptional age to 2 years

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 318-323

  Kos Pietro, Susan ^a   Towle, Vernon L ^a   Cakmur, R ^a   Spire, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

FVEP; P1; P100; Pattern resolution; PVEP; VEP; Visual acuity; Visual development; Visual evoked potential; Visual maturation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYELINATION; NEWBORN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030735608     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-973723     Document Type: Article

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