Transcranial direct current stimulation over multiple days improves learning and maintenance of a novel vocabulary

Cortex

Volumn 50, Issue , 2014, Pages 137-147

  Meinzer, Marcus ^a,b   Jähnigen, Sophia ^a   Copland, David A ^b   Darkow, Robert ^a   Grittner, Ulrike ^a   Avirame, Keren ^a   Rodriguez, Amy D ^b   Lindenberg, Robert ^a   Flöel, Agnes ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation; Language functions; Learning; Longitudinal design; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84908610182     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.07.013     Document Type: Article

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