Theta-burst stimulation of the right neocerebellar vermis selectively disrupts the practice-induced acceleration of lexical decisions

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 724-734

  Argyropoulos, Giorgos P ^a   Kimiskidis, Vasilios K ^b   Papagiannopoulos, Sotirios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Automatization; Neocerebellum; Prediction; TMS; Vermis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LATENT PERIOD; LEXICAL DECISION TASK; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA BURST STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBELLUM; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053579000     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025134     Document Type: Article

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