Transcranial direct current stimulation over right posterior parietal cortex changes prestimulus alpha oscillation in visual short-term memory task

NeuroImage

Volumn 98, Issue , 2014, Pages 306-313

  Hsu, Tzu Yu ^a,b,c   Tseng, Philip ^a   Liang, Wei Kuang ^a   Cheng, Shih Kuen ^a   Juan, Chi Hung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL SHORT TERM MEMORY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902996672     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.069     Document Type: Article

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