Development of the EEG of school-age children and adolescents II. Topography. Gasser, T., Jennen-Steinmetz, C., Sroka, L., Verleger, R., & Möcks, J. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 69(2):100–109, February, 1988.
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Topographic aspects of EEG development of normal children and adolescents from 6 to 17 years are investigated with respect to various spectral parameters. The topographic distribution of spectral band power does not change between hemispheres across age. Changes take place, however, in the antero-posterior dimension. For the bands theta, alpha1 and alpha2 (and less so for delta) maturation starts at posterior derivations and ends at anterior derivations. For the band beta2 (and to some extent also for beta1), development progresses from Cz to Pz and further to occipital, lateral, central and frontal derivations. Principal component analysis (PCA) leads to a more parsimonious and better interpretable description of broad-band power and of its topographic distribution. Broad-band coherences increase with age, though to a modest degree. The different magnitudes of coherence between different regions can be largely accounted for by the interelectrode distances. Coherences, too, can be described in a more parsimonious and better interpretable way via PCA. The 3 components extracted reflect firstly the overall level of coherence, secondly the coherences of the occipital regions with all other regions and thirdly antero-posterior versus left-right coherences.
@article{gasser_development_1988,
	title = {Development of the {EEG} of school-age children and adolescents {II}. {Topography}},
	volume = {69},
	issn = {00134694},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0013469488902052},
	doi = {10.1016/0013-4694(88)90205-2},
	abstract = {Topographic aspects of EEG development of normal children and adolescents from 6 to 17 years are investigated with respect to various spectral parameters. The topographic distribution of spectral band power does not change between hemispheres across age. Changes take place, however, in the antero-posterior dimension. For the bands theta, alpha1 and alpha2 (and less so for delta) maturation starts at posterior derivations and ends at anterior derivations. For the band beta2 (and to some extent also for beta1), development progresses from Cz to Pz and further to occipital, lateral, central and frontal derivations. Principal component analysis (PCA) leads to a more parsimonious and better interpretable description of broad-band power and of its topographic distribution. Broad-band coherences increase with age, though to a modest degree. The different magnitudes of coherence between different regions can be largely accounted for by the interelectrode distances. Coherences, too, can be described in a more parsimonious and better interpretable way via PCA. The 3 components extracted reflect firstly the overall level of coherence, secondly the coherences of the occipital regions with all other regions and thirdly antero-posterior versus left-right coherences.},
	number = {2},
	urldate = {2015-04-09},
	journal = {Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology},
	author = {Gasser, Theo and Jennen-Steinmetz, Christine and Sroka, Lothar and Verleger, Rolf and Möcks, Joachim},
	month = feb,
	year = {1988},
	keywords = {Coherences, EEG maturation, Hemispheric symmetry, Topographic parameters},
	pages = {100--109},
}

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