Naming facilitation induced by transcranial direct current stimulation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 311-318

  Fertonani, Anna ^a,b   Rosini, Sandra ^a   Cotelli, Maria ^a   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^b   Miniussi, Carlo ^a,c  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b Department of Neurology ^*  (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognition; Language; Naming; Prefrontal cortex; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NAMES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949265495     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.10.030     Document Type: Article

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