Facilitating effect of 15-Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on tactile perceptual learning

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1577-1585

  Karim, Ahmed A ^a,b   Schüler, Anne ^a   Hegner, Yiwen Li ^a   Friedel, Eva ^a   Godde, Ben ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIATHERMY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TIME PERCEPTION; TOUCH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; TOUCH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33749449057     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.9.1577     Document Type: Article

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