The effects of cross-hemispheric dorsolateral prefrontal cortex transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on task switching

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 660-667

  Leite, Jorge ^a   Carvalho, Sandra ^a   Fregni, Felipe ^b   Boggio, Paulo S ^c   Gonçalves, Óscar F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^c MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cross hemispheric tDCS; PFC; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CORTICAL ELECTRODE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASK SWITCHING; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VOWEL;

CROSS-HEMISPHERIC TDCS; PFC; TASK SWITCHING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84879891706     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2012.10.006     Document Type: Article

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