Anodal tDCS of dorsolateral prefontal cortex during an Implicit Association Test

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 517, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 82-86

  Gladwin, Thomas E ^a   den Uyl, Tess E ^a   Wiers, Reinout W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bias; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Executive function; IAT; TDCS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861203170     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.04.025     Document Type: Article

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