“…The latency of the component (P100) is known to increase with age (Asselman, Chadwick & Marsden, 1975;Celesia & Daly, 1977;Shaw &Cant, 1980, and. On the contrary, it has been known that although the waveform of the pattern reversal VECP altered in infants (Spekreijse, 1978), no significant change with age over the rest of the life span was found (Celesia & Daly, 1977;Snyder, Dustman & Shearer, 1981;Halliday et al, 1982, and.…”