Modulation of top-down control of visual attention by cathodal tDCS over right IPS

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 46, 2012, Pages 16360-16368

  Moos, Katharina ^a   Vossel, Simone ^a,b   Weidner, Ralph ^a   Sparing, Roland ^a,c   Fink, Gereon R ^a,c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869039653     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6233-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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