Selective Modulation of Interhemispheric Functional Connectivity by HD-tACS Shapes Perception

PLoS Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Helfrich, Randolph F ^a   Knepper, Hannah ^a   Nolte, Guido ^a   Strüber, Daniel ^b   Rach, Stefan ^b,c   Herrmann, Christoph S ^b   Schneider, Till R ^a   Engel, Andreas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY BIPS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HEMISPHERE; HIGH DENSITY TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OSCILLATION; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; ELECTRODE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; STROBOSCOPY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; CEREBRUM; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NERVE NET; STROBOSCOPY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84924037572     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002031     Document Type: Article

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