Electrical stimulation of Broca's area enhances implicit learning of an artificial grammar

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2427-2436

  De Vries, Meinou H ^a,b   Barth, Andre C R ^a   Maiworm, Sandra ^a   Knecht, Stefan ^a,c   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^a   Flöel, Agnes ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c Neurocenter   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL GRAMMAR; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BROCA AREA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT LEARNING; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART RATE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78049430383     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21385     Document Type: Article

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