Transcranial alternating current stimulation reveals atypical 40 Hz phosphene thresholds in synaesthesia

Cortex

Volumn 63, Issue , 2015, Pages 267-270

  Terhune, Devin B ^a   Song, Seoho M ^a   Cohen Kadosh, Roi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CELL COUNT; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; VISION; BRAIN; COLOR VISION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOSPHENES; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908012172     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.09.006     Document Type: Letter

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