Friends, not foes: Magnetoencephalography as a tool to uncover brain dynamics during transcranial alternating current stimulation

NeuroImage

Volumn 118, Issue , 2015, Pages 406-413

  Neuling, Toralf ^a   Ruhnau, Philipp ^a   Fuscà, Marco ^a   Demarchi, Gianpaolo ^a   Herrmann, Christoph S ^b   Weisz, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artifact rejection; Entrainment; Magnetoencephalography; MEG; tACS; Transcranial alternating current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY SYSTEM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER; AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; BRAIN CORTEX; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84934905398     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.026     Document Type: Article

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