Ceiling effects prevent further improvement of transcranial stimulation in skilled musicians

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 41, 2014, Pages 13834-13839

  Furuya, Shinichi ^a   Klaus, Matthias ^a   Nitsche, Michael A ^b   Paulus, Walter ^b   Altenmüller, Eckart ^a  

^a Hanover University of Music and Drama   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dexterity; Expertise; Motor cortex; Motor skill acquisition; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CEILING EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSICIAN; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; FINGER; INNERVATION; MUSIC; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSIC; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923444650     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1170-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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