Enhanced motor learning following task-concurrent dual transcranial direct current stimulation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Karok, Sophia ^a   Witney, Alice G ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; MOTOR LEARNING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84893227523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085693     Document Type: Article

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