Maturation of steady-state flicker VEPs in infants: Fundamental and harmonic temporal response frequencies

Documenta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 109-119

  Pieh, C ^a   McCulloch, D L ^a   Shahani, U ^b   Mactier, H ^c   Bach, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flicker VEP; Infant; Maturation; Temporal frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LUMINANCE; MATURATION; NORMAL HUMAN; STEADY STATE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIGHT; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 61849083510     PISSN: 00124486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10633-008-9145-6     Document Type: Article

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