Increasing propensity to mind-wander with transcranial direct current stimulation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3314-3319

  Axelrod, Vadim ^a,b   Rees, Geraint ^b,c   Lavidor, Michal ^a   Bar, Moshe ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation; Frontal lobes; Mind wandering; Spontaneous activity; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MIND WANDERING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; ATTENTION; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925263403     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1421435112     Document Type: Article

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