Galvanic vestibular stimulation influences randomness of number generation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 233-241

  Ferrè, Elisa Raffaella ^a   Vagnoni, Eleonora ^b   Haggard, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exploration and exploitation; Galvanic vestibular stimulation; Neglect; Randomness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; GALVANIC VESTIBULAR TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872299306     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3302-6     Document Type: Article

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