Transcranial direct current stimulation facilitates decision making in a probabilistic guessing task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4241-4245

  Hecht, David ^a,b   Walsh, Vincent ^b   Lavidor, Michal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIRECT CURRENT; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DECISION MAKING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBABILITY LEARNING; REACTION TIME; RISK-TAKING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949779041     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2924-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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