Transcranial direct current stimulation's effect on novice versus experienced learning

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-14

  Bullard, L M ^a   Browning, E S ^b   Clark, V P ^a,b   Coffman, B A ^a,b   Garcia, C M ^b   Jung, R E ^a,c   Van Der Merwe, A J ^a   Paulson, K M ^a   Vakhtin, A A ^a   Wootton, C L ^a   Weisend, M P ^a  

^a MIND RESEARCH NETWORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning; Threat detection; Training; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREAT; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960966498     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2764-2     Document Type: Article

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