Focalised stimulation using high definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) to investigate declarative verbal learning and memory functioning

NeuroImage

Volumn 117, Issue , 2015, Pages 11-19

  Nikolin, Stevan ^a   Loo, Colleen K ^a,b   Bai, Siwei ^a,c   Dokos, Socrates ^a   Martin, Donel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Declarative verbal memory; High definition transcranial direct current stimulation; Left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Left medial temporal lobe; Planum temporale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC FIELD; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING STYLE; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; LEARNING; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930632417     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.019     Document Type: Article

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