Left hemisphere EEG coherence in infancy predicts infant declarative pointing and preschool epistemic language

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 49-59

  Kuhn Popp N ^a   Kristen, S ^a   Paulus, M ^a   Meinhardt, J ^a   Sodian, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Declarative and imperative point production; EEG; Epistemic language; Infancy

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BRAIN; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84952863924     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2015.1024887     Document Type: Article

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