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Science 29 May 1987:
Vol. 236. no. 4805, pp. 1110 - 1113
DOI: 10.1126/science.3576224
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Science, Vol 236, Issue 4805, 1110-1113
Copyright © 1987 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Human cerebral hemispheres develop at different rates and ages

RW Thatcher, RA Walker, and S Giudice

The development of the cerebral hemispheres was assessed by using measures of electroencephalographic coherence and phase in 577 children ranging in age from 2 months to early adulthood. Two categories of age-dependent change in electroencephalographic coherence and phase were noted: continuous growth processes that were described best by an exponential growth function, and discrete growth spurts that appeared in specific anatomical locations at specific postnatal periods. The left and right hemispheres developed at different rates and with different postnatal onset times with the timing of growth spurts overlapping the timing of the major developmental stages described by Piaget.


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