Activation of the prefrontal cortex and posterior parietal cortex increases the recognition of semantic violations in action representation

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 435-442

  Balconi, Michela ^a   Canavesio, Ylenia ^a   Vitaloni, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action; Functional incongruence; Instrumental incongruence; Posterior parietal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL INCONGRUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; INSTRUMENTAL INCONGRUENCE; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SHAM PROCEDURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMANTICS; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899972483     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2014.01.011     Document Type: Article

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