The interrelation between sensorimotor abilities, cognitive performance and individual EEG alpha peak frequency in young children

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 270-276

  Mierau, Andreas ^a   Felsch, Moritz ^b   Hülsdünker, Thorben ^a   Mierau, Julia ^a   Bullermann, Pola ^a   Weiß, Britta ^a   Strüder, Heiko K ^a  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain; Childhood; Cognition; Development; Locomotion; Motor coordination

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CHILD; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; WORKING MEMORY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX;

ALPHA RHYTHM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX;

EID: 84927145358     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2015.03.008     Document Type: Article

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