Transcranial direct current stimulation over right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex enhances error awareness in older age

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3646-3652

  Harty, Siobhán ^a   Robertson, Ian H ^a   Miniussi, Carlo ^b   Sheehy, Owen C ^a   Devine, Ciara A ^a   McCreery, Sarahjane ^a   O'Connell, Redmond G ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Error awareness; Performance monitoring; Prefrontal cortex; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

COGNITIVE AGING; ERROR AWARENESS; PERFORMANCE MONITORING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TDCS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AWARENESS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84895461238     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5308-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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