Transcranial alternating stimulation in a high gamma frequency range applied over V1 improves contrast perception but does not modulate spatial attention

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 484-491

  Laczó, Bence ^a,b   Antal, Andrea ^a   Niebergall, Robert ^c,d   Treue, Stefan ^c   Paulus, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

contrast perception; human; spatial attention; tACS; visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ATTENTION; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84867578971     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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