Site-dependent effects of tDCS uncover dissociations in the communication network underlying the processing of visual search

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 959-965

  Ball, Keira ^a   Lane, Alison R ^a   Smith, Daniel T ^a   Ellison, Amanda ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conjunction search; Frontal eye fields; Posterior parietal cortex; Spatial attention; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; REACTION TIME; STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CONJUNCTION SEARCH; FRONTAL EYE FIELDS; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; SPATIAL ATTENTION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887990398     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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