Causal evidence for a mechanism of semantic integration in the angular Gyrus as revealed by high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 3829-3838

  Price, Amy Rose ^a   Peelle, Jonathan E ^b   Bonner, Michael F ^a   Grossman, Murray ^a   Hamilton, Roy H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation; Compositionality; Inferior parietal cortex; Semantic integration; Semantic memory; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITION ASSESSMENT; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NEUROBIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; YOUNG ADULT; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962009410     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3120-15.2016     Document Type: Article

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