Shaping pseudoneglect with transcranial cerebellar direct current stimulation and music listening

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Picazio, Silvia ^a,b   Granata, Chiara ^c   Caltagirone, Carlo ^a,d   Petrosini, Laura ^a,b   Oliveri, Massimiliano ^a,c,e  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e NeuroTeam Life and Science   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Music listening; Pseudoneglect; State dependency; tcDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PSEUDONEGLECT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL CEREBELLAR DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 84933671691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00158     Document Type: Article

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