tDCS Over the Motor Cortex Shows Differential Effects on Action and Object Words in Associative Word Learning in Healthy Aging

Healthy aging is accompanied by a continuous decline in cognitive functions. For example, the ability to learn languages decreases with age, while the neurobiological underpinnings for the decline in learning abilities are not known exactly. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), in combina...

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Main Authors: Meret Branscheidt, Julia Hoppe, Nils Freundlieb, Pienie Zwitserlood, Gianpiero Liuzzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnagi.2017.00137/full