Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over auditory cortex degrades frequency discrimination by affecting temporal, but not place, coding

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2802-2811

  Tang, Matthew F ^a   Hammond, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditory theory; Cortical plasticity; Human; Perceptual learning; TDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; FUNCTIONAL DISSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84883449952     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12280     Document Type: Article

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