EEG correlates of the development of infant joint attention skills

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 325-338

  Mundy, Peter ^a   Card, Judith ^b   Fox, Nathan ^b  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

EEG; Infant development; Joint attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NERVE NET; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0034014685     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(200005)36:4<325::AID-DEV7>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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