Impact of tDCS on performance and learning of target detection: Interaction with stimulus characteristics and experimental design

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1594-1602

  Coffman, B A ^a,b   Trumbo, M C ^b   Flores, R A ^a   Garcia, C M ^a,b   van der Merwe, A J ^a   Wassermann, E M ^c   Weisend, M P ^a   Clark, V P ^a,b  

^a Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation; Frontal cortex; Learning; Memory; Object recognition; TDCS; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EXPECTANCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; REPETITION PRIMING; RESPONSE BIAS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BIOPHYSICS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861224191     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.03.012     Document Type: Article

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