Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on behaviour and electrophysiology of language production

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 3989-3998

  Wirth, Miranka ^a,c   Abdel Rahman, Rasha ^b   Kuenecke, Janina ^b   Koenig, Thomas ^a   Horn, Helge ^a   Sommer, Werner ^b   Dierks, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; EEG; ERP; Language; Naming; Rehabilitation; Stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCALP; SEMANTICS; SHAM PROCEDURE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPEECH; SPEECH REHABILITATION; TEMPORAL BONE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 81855201721     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.10.015     Document Type: Article

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