Transcranial magnetic stimulation to dorsolateral prefrontal cortex affects conflict-induced behavioural adaptation in a Wisconsin Card Sorting Test analogue

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 94, Issue , 2017, Pages 36-43

  Boschin, Erica A ^a   Mars, Rogier B ^b   Buckley, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavioural adaptation; Conflict monitoring; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MODULATION; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFLICT; COPING BEHAVIOR; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84998579478     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.11.015     Document Type: Article

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