Editorial Expression of Concern: “Unfocus” on foc.us: commercial tDCS headset impairs working memory(Exp Brain Res, (2016), 234, (637–643), 10.1007/s00221-015-4391-9);“Unfocus” on foc.us: commercial tDCS headset impairs working memory

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 234, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 637-643

  Steenbergen, Laura ^a   Sellaro, Roberta ^a   Hommel, Bernhard ^a   Lindenberger, Ulman ^b   Kühn, Simone ^b   Colzato, Lorenza S ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

foc.us; N back; tDCS; Updating; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL SENSATION; ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BURNING SENSATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MINI INTERNATIONAL NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROLOGICAL THERAPEUTIC DEVICE; NEUROMONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE MONITORING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF REPORT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION HEADSET; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; MEMORY DISORDERS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958060749     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-022-06418-3     Document Type: Erratum

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