Acquisition of conditioned eyeblink responses is modulated by cerebellar tDCS

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 525-531

  Zuchowski, Matthias L ^a   Timmann, Dagmar ^a   Gerwig, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Cerebellum; Eyeblink conditioning; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCIDENCE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE STIMULATOR; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECORDING; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; BLINKING; CONDITIONING; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

NEPTUNIA;

ADULT; BLINKING; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, EYELID; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905044072     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2014.03.010     Document Type: Article

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