Dynamic links between emerging cognitive skills and brain processes

Developmental Neuropsychology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 682-706

  Molfese, Dennis L ^a   Molfese, Victoria J ^a   Beswick, Jennifer ^a   Jacobi Vessels, Jill ^a   Molfese, Peter J ^b   Key, Alexandra P F ^c   Starkey, Gillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DYNAMICS; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCREENING TEST; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 56249094543     PISSN: 87565641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/87565640802418647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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