[Maturation of somesthetic evoked potentials in man]

Somaesthetic evoked potentials (SEPs) have been recorded on the parietal scalp of 375 normal and awake children to brief electrical stimulation (0.5 msec) applied to the contralateral median nerve at the wrist. Each SEP was obtained by summation of the responses to 150 stimuli delivered at a frequency of 1/sec. The population studied has been divided in five age groups, each one corresponding to a recognizable stage of maturation of the responses.