Bi-frontal direct current stimulation affects delay discounting choices

Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 7-11

  Hecht, David ^a,b   Walsh, Vincent ^b   Lavidor, Michal ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation; Decision making; Delay discounting; Frontal cortex; Intertemporal choice; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DELAY DISCOUNTING; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SHAM PROCEDURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874146216     PISSN: 17588928     EISSN: 17588936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2011.638139     Document Type: Article

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