Effects of Galvanic vestibular stimulation on cognitive function

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 275-285

  Dilda, Valentina ^a   MacDougall, Hamish G ^a,b   Curthoys, Ian S ^b   Moore, Steven T ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Egocentric mental transformation; Hippocampus; Microgravity; Perspective taking; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GALVANIC VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL MEMORY; STROOP TEST; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE FLIGHT; STROOP TEST; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 84856274951     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2929-z     Document Type: Article

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