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Ontogenetic development of the brain is reflected in the EEG, the most prominent changes consisting of variations in its frequency composition. These variations lead to the establishment of the a rhythm in late childhood (Niedermeyer, 1987; Petersén et al., 1975). This phenomenon has been the subject of many studies that have been carried out first by manual measurement of the dominant frequency of the EEG (Lindsley, 1939) and later using more accurate quantitative techniques (Gibbs and Knott, 1949; John et al., 1980; Matoušek and Petersén, 1973a, and b; Petersén et al., 1975) based on the use of EEG spectral analysis.
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Amador, A.A., Pascual-Marqui, R.D., Valdés-Sosa, P.A. (1990). Spatiotemporal Properties of the α Rhythm. In: John, E.R., Harmony, T., Prichep, L.S., Valdés-Sosa, M., Valdés-Sosa, P.A. (eds) Machinery of the Mind. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1083-0_4
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