Enhancing Consolidation of a New Temporal Motor Skill by Cerebellar Noninvasive Stimulation

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1660-1667

  Wessel, Maximilian J ^a   Zimerman, Máximo ^a,b   Timmermann, Jan E ^a   Heise, Kirstin F ^a   Gerloff, Christian ^a   Hummel, Friedhelm C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE NEUROLOGY INECO   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

cerebellum; motor learning; rehabilitation; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CEREBELLUM; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR SKILLS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84963819802     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu335     Document Type: Article

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