Complexity of electrocortical dynamics in children: Developmental aspects

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-22

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

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Age; Cognitive tasks; Development; Dimensional complexity; EEG; Gender

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN MATURATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0033965324     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(200001)36:1<9::AID-DEV2>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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