Growth spurts in brain maturation during middle childhood as indexed by EEG power spectra

Biological Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 187-209

  Somsen, Riek J M ^a   Van't Klooster, Ben J ^a   Van Der Molen, Maurits W ^a   Van Leeuwen, Harry M P ^a   Licht, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absolute power; Growth spurts; Maturation; Power spectrum; Quantitative EEG; Relative power

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN MATURATION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROWTH ACCELERATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0031592454     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0511(96)05218-0     Document Type: Article

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