Is Motor Learning Mediated by tDCS Intensity?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Cuypers, Koen ^a,b,c   Leenus, Daphnie J F ^a,b   van den Berg, Femke E ^c   Nitsche, Michael A ^d   Thijs, Herbert ^a,b,c   Wenderoth, Nicole ^c,e   Meesen, Raf L J ^a,b,c  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b PHL University College   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANODAL TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SKILL; SLEEP QUALITY; STIMULATION INTENSITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SLEEP; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879466974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067344     Document Type: Article

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