Effects of cerebellar stimulation on processing semantic associations

Cerebellum

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 83-96

  Argyropoulos, Giorgos P ^a   Muggleton, Neil G ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Neocerebellum; Prediction; Priming; TMS; Top down processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; SEMANTICS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872497298     PISSN: 14734222     EISSN: 14734230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12311-012-0398-y     Document Type: Article

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