Facilitation of visuo-motor learning by transcranial direct current stimulation of the motor and extrastriate visual areas in humans

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2888-2892

  Antal, Andrea ^a   Nitsche, Michael A ^a   Kincses, Tamás Z ^a   Kruse, Wolfgang ^b   Hoffmann, Klaus Peter ^b   Paulus, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Direct current stimulation; Human; Tracking movements; V5; Visuo motor learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 2942594478     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03367.x     Document Type: Article

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