Enhancement of selective attention by tDCS: Interaction with interference in a Sternberg task

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 512, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-37

  Gladwin, Thomas E ^a   den Uyl, Tess E ^a   Fregni, Felipe F ^b,c   Wiers, Reinout W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex span; Selective attention; Sternberg task; TDCS; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STERNBERG TASK; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857997757     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.01.056     Document Type: Article

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