Modulating inhibitory control with direct current stimulation of the superior medial frontal cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2249-2257

  Hsu, Tzu Yu ^a,b   Tseng, Lin Yuan ^a,b   Yu, Jia Xin ^a,b   Kuo, Wen Jui ^a,b   Hung, Daisy L ^a,b   Tzeng, Ovid J L ^a,b,c   Walsh, Vincent ^d   Muggleton, Neil G ^b,d   Juan, Chi Hung ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inhibitory control; Pre SMA; Stop signal task; TDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITORY CONTROL; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPERIOR MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957486223     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.03.059     Document Type: Article

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