Functional interaction between right parietal and bilateral frontal cortices during visual search tasks revealed using functional magnetic imaging and transcranial direct current stimulation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Ellison, Amanda ^a   Ball, Keira L ^a   Moseley, Peter ^a   Dowsett, James ^b   Smith, Daniel T ^a   Weis, Susanne ^a   Lane, Alison R ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL SEARCH TASK; ATTENTION; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84899068792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093767     Document Type: Article

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