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Águida Foerster1, Fatemeh Yavari2, Leila Farnad2

  • 1Dept. Psychology and Neurosciences, Leibniz Research Center for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund, Germany; Dept. Clinical Neurophysiology, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen Georg- August Universität, Göttingen, Germany.

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Electrode angleHealthy humansNeuroplasticityStimulation polarityTranscranial brain stimulation

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