Facilitation of inferior frontal cortex by transcranial direct current stimulation induces perceptual learning of severely degraded speech

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 40, 2013, Pages 15868-15878

  Sehm, Bernhard ^a,b   Schnitzler, Tim ^a   Obleser, Jonas ^a   Groba, Agnes ^a,c   Ragert, Patrick ^a   Villringer, Arno ^a,b   Obrig, Hellmuth ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DEPTH ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TRAINING; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84884955814     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5466-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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