The mental cost of cognitive enhancement

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4482-4486

  Iuculano, Teresa ^a,b,c   Kadosh, Roi Cohen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MENTAL TASK; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STROOP TEST; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874582997     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4927-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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