Event-related brain potentials during an extended visual recognition memory task depict delayed development of cerebral inhibitory processes among 6-month-old infants with Down syndrome

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 167-200

  Karrer, Jennifer Hill ^a   Karrer, Rathe ^a   Bloom, Dawn ^a   Chaney, Lisa ^a   Davis, Ryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Down syndrome; ERPs; Infancy; Memory inhibition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DOWN SYNDROME; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0032125464     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8760(98)00015-4     Document Type: Article

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