Improving emotional prosody detection in the attending ear by cathodal tDCS suppression of the competing channel

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 508, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 52-55

  Alexander, Tim ^a   Avirame, Keren ^b,c   Lavidor, Michal ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dichotic listening; Emotional prosody; Lateralization; TDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; EAR; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; EAR; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855926459     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.12.017     Document Type: Article

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