Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex disrupts digit span task performance

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 44-48

  Aleman, André ^a,b   Van'T Wout, Mascha ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Digit span; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 45549103349     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000129666     Document Type: Article

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