Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation reduces psychophysically measured surround suppression in the human visual cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Spiegel, Daniel P ^a   Hansen, Bruce C ^b   Byblow, Winston D ^a   Thompson, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Assistant Professor in the University Libraries   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MASKING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRODE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860474704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036220     Document Type: Article

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