Differential influences of unilateral tDCS over the intraparietal cortex on numerical cognition

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Artemenko, Christina ^a   Moeller, Korbinian ^a,b   Huber, Stefan ^b   Klein, Elise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intraparietal sulcus; Number magnitude processing; Numerical cognition; Place value processing; Transcranial direct current stimulation; Unilateral tDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARABIC NUMBER SYSTEM; ARTICLE; CARRY OVER EFFECT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTOR DISTANCE EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL CORTEX; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LEFT INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LINEAR MIXED EFFECT MODEL; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUMERICAL COGNITION; PARIETAL CORTEX; PLACE VALUE STRUCTURE; REACTION TIME; RELIABILITY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; RIGHT INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROOP TEST; TARGET IDENTITY EFFECT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; UNILATERAL TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84933676091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00110     Document Type: Article

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