Resting frontal gamma power at 16, 24 and 36 months predicts individual differences in language and cognition at 4 and 5 years

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 263-270

  Gou, Zhenkun ^a   Choudhury, Naseem ^a,b   Benasich, April A ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Gamma power; Language; Resting EEG; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REST; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79953275610     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.01.048     Document Type: Article

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