Transcranial direct current stimulation modulates human color discrimination in a pathway-specific manner

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Costa, Thiago L ^a   Nagy, Balázs V ^a   Barboni, Mirella T S ^a   Boggio, Paulo S ^b   Ventura, Dora F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Color vision; Koniocellular pathway; Parvocellular pathway; TDCS; Transcranial direct current stimulation; V1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KONIOCELLULAR SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARVOCELLULAR SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 84867123319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2012.00078     Document Type: Article

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