Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the inferior frontal gyrus disrupts interpersonal motor resonance

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1628-1631

  Enticott, Peter G ^a   Arnold, Sara L ^a   Fitzgibbon, Bernadette M ^a   Hoy, Kate E ^a   Susilo, Devi A ^a   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Mirror neurons; Motor resonance; Transcranial direct current stimulation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTERPERSONAL MOTOR RESONANCE; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HAND; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861223262     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.03.016     Document Type: Article

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