Stability in infant frontal asymmetry as a predictor of toddlerhood internalizing and externalizing behaviors

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 158-167

  Smith, Cynthia L ^a   Bell, Martha Ann ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EEG; Externalizing; Frontal asymmetry; Human infants; Human toddlers; Internalizing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE;

EID: 77749299406     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20427     Document Type: Article

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