Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex affects stimulus conflict but not response conflict

Neuroscience

Volumn 322, Issue , 2016, Pages 320-325

  Zmigrod, S ^a   Zmigrod, L ^b   Hommel, B ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation; Cognitive control; DLPFC; Eriksen flanker effect; Simon effect; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ERIKSEN FLANKER TASK; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE CONFLICT; RESPONSE TIME; SIMON TASK; STIMULUS CONFLICT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; CONFLICT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959431772     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.02.046     Document Type: Article

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