TDCS guided using fMRI significantly accelerates learning to identify concealed objects

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 117-128

  Clark, Vincent P ^a,b   Coffman, Brian A ^a,b   Mayer, Andy R ^a   Weisend, Michael P ^a   Lane, Terran D R ^c   Calhoun, Vince D ^a,c   Raybourn, Elaine M ^d   Garcia, Christopher M ^a,b   Wassermann, Eric M ^e  

^a MIND RESEARCH NETWORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c University of New Mexico   (United States)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cingulate cortex; Expertise; Frontal cortex; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Medial temporal lobe; Memory; Parietal cortex; Perception; Training; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NATURALISTIC INQUIRY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VIRTUAL REALITY; VOLUNTEER;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 80054100245     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.11.036     Document Type: Article

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