Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of left parietal cortex facilitates gesture processing in healthy subjects

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 49, 2013, Pages 19205-19211

  Weiss, Peter H ^a,b   Achilles, Elisabeth I S ^a,b   Moos, Katharina ^a,b   Hesse, Maike D ^a,b   Sparing, Roland ^a,b   Fink, Gereon R ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBE; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONAVIGATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889042678     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4714-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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