Bilateral temporal cortex transcranial direct current stimulation worsens male performance in a multisensory integration task

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 527, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 105-109

  Lapenta, Olivia Morgan ^a   Fregni, Felipe ^b,c   Oberman, Lindsay M ^c   Boggio, Paulo Sergio ^a  

^a MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme male brain theory; Gender; Multisensory integration; Superior temporal sulcus; TDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHAM PROCEDURE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; COGNITION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEX FACTORS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866765375     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.08.076     Document Type: Article

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