Cerebellar direct current stimulation enhances on-line motor skill acquisition through an effect on accuracy

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3285-3290

  Cantarero, Gabriela ^a   Spampinato, Danny ^a   Reis, Janine ^b   Ajagbe, Loni ^a   Thompson, Tziporah ^a   Kulkarni, Kopal ^a   Celnik, Pablo ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Skill learning; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PINCH STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENTIAL VISUAL ISOMETRIC PINCH TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); ONLINE SYSTEM; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922982590     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2885-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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