Transcranial random noise stimulation mitigates increased difficulty in an arithmetic learning task

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 81, Issue , 2016, Pages 255-264

  Popescu, Tudor ^a,b   Krause, Beatrix ^a   Terhune, Devin B ^a   Twose, Olivia ^a   Page, Thomas ^a   Humphreys, Glyn ^a   Cohen Kadosh, Roi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive training; Mental arithmetic; Posterior parietal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Task difficulty; Transcranial random noise stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; NEUROMODULATION; NOISE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; WORKING MEMORY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MATHEMATICS; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MATHEMATICS; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84953261722     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.12.028     Document Type: Article

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