High-Level Cognitive Functions in Healthy Subjects

The Stimulated Brain: Cognitive Enhancement Using Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 299-329

  Sela, Tal ^a   Lavidor, Michal ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cognitive enhancement; Cognitive functions; Executive functions; Language; Numerical cognition; Problem solving; Response inhibition; TACS; TDCS; TES; TRNS; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924667544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-404704-4.00011-9     Document Type: Chapter

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