Lateralization of activity in the parietal cortex predicts the effectiveness of bilateral transcranial direct current stimulation on performance of a mental calculation task

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 545, Issue , 2013, Pages 86-90

  Kasahara, Kazumi ^a,b,c   Tanaka, Satoshi ^b,d   Hanakawa, Takashi ^b,e,f   Senoo, Atsushi ^a   Honda, Manabu ^b,e  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^f JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Laterality; Mental calculation; Parietal cortex; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL ARITHMETIC; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878550732     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.04.022     Document Type: Article

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