Correlation of the characteristics of EEG potentials with the indices of attention in 12-to 13-year-old children |
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Authors: | N V Lutsyuk E V Éismont V B Pavlenko |
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Institution: | (1) Vernadskii Tavricheskii National University, Simferopol’ Crimean Autonomic Republic, Ukraine |
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Abstract: | We studied correlations of the spectral characteristics of EEG with the indices characterizing the level of attention in 60
children (12 to 13 years old). Indices of voluntary attention were measured using a complex of psychological tests, including
a Bourdon’s test (correcture test), a two-stimulus go/no-go test, a computer test (a modification of the Bourdon’s test for
characterization of concentration and stability of attention), and Schulte’s tables. Children manifesting a good working ability
(corresponding to the results of the go/no-go test and correcture test) showed relatively high values of the ratio of spectral
powers (SPs) of the beta 1 and theta rhythms. These ratios were greater in the right hemisphere; this is probably indicative
of a greater contribution of neuronal mechanisms of this hemisphere to providing watchfulness and stability of attention.
Children demonstrating increased impulsivity (according to the results of the go/no-go test) were characterized by low modal
frequencies of the alpha rhythm in the occipital brain regions, while children with relatively high values of this frequency
in various cerebral regions demonstrated high indices of attentiveness and rates of the cognitive processes. Children performing
the test task with especially high accuracy were characterized by high ratios of SPs of the low-frequency beta rhythm vs theta rhythm (mostly in the central and parietal regions of both hemispheres). The approach we have applied can be used for
measuring the objective indices characterizing the state of the attention sphere in children.
Neirofiziologiya/Neurophysiology, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 248–256, May–June, 2006. |
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Keywords: | EEG spectral characteristics attention children |
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