Does excitatory fronto-extracerebral tDCS lead to improved working memory performance?

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Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lally, Níall ^a   Nord, Camilla L ^a   Walsh, Vincent ^a   Roiser, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

3 BACK TASK; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTRODE; EXCITATORY TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING AND MEMORY TEST; MALE; NERVE STIMULATOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84914813251     PISSN: 20461402     EISSN: 1759796X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.2-219.v2     Document Type: Article

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