Transcranial direct current stimulation can selectively affect different processing channels in human visual cortex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 233, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1213-1223

  Costa, Thiago L ^a,b,e   Hamer, Russell D ^a,c,d   Nagy, Balázs V ^a   Barboni, Mirella T S ^a   Gualtieri, Mirella ^a   Boggio, Paulo S ^b   Ventura, Dora F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Instituto de Psicologia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Pedestal test; Spatial frequency; sVEP; tDCS; tDCS specificity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUMINANCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925462999     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-015-4199-7     Document Type: Article

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