Event-related EEG oscillations to semantically unrelated words in normal and learning disabled children

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 74-82

  Fernández, Thalía ^a   Harmony, Thalía ^a   Mendoza, Omar ^b   López Alanís, Paula ^a   Marroquín, José Luis ^b   Otero, Gloria ^c   Ricardo Garcell, Josefina ^a  

^a CENTRO DE FÍSICA APLICADA Y TECNOLOGÍA AVANZADA   (Mexico)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^c Universidad Autonoma del Estado de   (Mexico)

Author keywords

EEG delta; EEG oscillations; EEG theta; Event related EEG; Learning disabled children; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BEHAVIOR; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HANDICAPPED CHILD; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; OSCILLATION; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SENSORY STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; CHILD; DISABLED CHILDREN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84861337763     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.04.008     Document Type: Article

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