Long-term stability in children's frontal EEG alpha asymmetry between 14-months and 83-months

International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 41, Issue , 2015, Pages 110-114

  Müller, Barbara C N ^a,b   Kühn Popp, Nina ^b   Meinhardt, Jörg ^b   Sodian, Beate ^b   Paulus, Markus ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha asymmetry; Development; Longitudinal study; Stability

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESTING STATE NETWORK; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INFANT; PHYSIOLOGY; REST;

ALPHA RHYTHM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; REST;

EID: 84922980623     PISSN: 07365748     EISSN: 1873474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2015.01.002     Document Type: Article

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