Cognitive enhancement or cognitive cost: Trait-specific outcomes of brain stimulation in the case of mathematics anxiety

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 50, 2014, Pages 16605-16610

  Sarkar, Amar ^a   Dowker, Ann ^a   Kadosh, Roi Cohen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation; Cognitive cost; Cognitive enhancement; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Individual differences; Mathematics anxiety

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ACHIEVEMENT TEST; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DECISION MAKING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FLANKER TASK; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MATHEMATICS ANXIETY; MATHEMATICS ANXIETY RATING SCALE; MENTAL TASK; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; STRESS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; THERAPY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; COGNITION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84916618714     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3129-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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