Effects of transcranial electrical stimulation on cognition

Clinical EEG and Neuroscience

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 192-199

  Kuo, Min Fang ^a   Nitsche, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

brain stimulation; learning; memory; neuroplasticity; perception; tACS; tDCS; tRNS

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; CREATIVITY; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MEMORY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OSCILLATION; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESPONSE TIME; SOCIAL COGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL RANDOM NOISE STIMULATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; ACTION POTENTIAL; BRAIN; EVOKED RESPONSE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84868604810     PISSN: 15500594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1550059412444975     Document Type: Article

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