Prefrontal control during a semantic decision task that involves idiom comprehension: A transcranial direct current stimulation study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2271-2280

  Sela, Tal ^a   Ivry, Richard B ^b   Lavidor, Michal ^a,c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; DLPFC; Idioms; Semantic processing; TDCS; Trait motivation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTIVATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; REWARD; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863874453     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.05.031     Document Type: Article

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