ArticleThe European journal of neuroscience2015
The effect of oppositional parietal transcranial direct current stimulation on lateralized brain functions.
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- Opposite pattern of transcranial direct current stimulation effects in middle-aged and older adults: Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Article
- Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on visuospatial attention in air traffic controllers.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Understanding the Effects of Transcranial Electrical Stimulation in Numerical Cognition: A Systematic Review for Clinical Translation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
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- A Functional Domain Based Approach in Neurocognitive Rehabilitation with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: A Case Report.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2019Article
- Brain state and polarity dependent modulation of brain networks by transcranial direct current stimulation.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
- Healthy Subjects With Extreme Patterns of Performance Differ in Functional Network Topology and Benefits From Nicotine.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2019Article
- The Impact of Cognitive Load on the Spatial Deployment of Visual Attention: Testing the Role of Interhemispheric Balance With Biparietal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- An EEG Study of a Confusing State Induced by Information Insufficiency during Mathematical Problem-Solving and Reasoning.Computational intelligence and neuroscience · 2018Article
- Inconsistent Effects of Parietal α-tACS on Pseudoneglect across Two Experiments: A Failed Internal Replication.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Transcranial electrical stimulation nomenclature.Brain stimulationReview
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Abstract
Cognitive functions such as numerical processing and spatial attention show varying degrees of lateralization. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can be used to investigate how modulating cortical excitability affects performance of these tasks. This study investigated the effect of bi-parietal tDCS on numerical processing, spatial and sustained attention. It was hypothesized that tDCS would have distinct effects on these tasks because of varying lateralization (numerical processing left, spatial attention right) and that these effects are partly mediated by modulation of sustained attention. A single-blinded, crossover, sham-controlled study was performed. Eighteen healthy right-handed participants performed cognitive tasks during three sessions of oppositional parietal tDCS stimulation: sham; right anodal with left cathodal (RA/LC); and right cathodal with left anodal (RC/LA). Participants performed a number comparison task, a modified Posner task, a choice reaction task (CRT) and the rapid visual processing task (RVP). RA/LC tDCS impaired number comparison performance compared with sham, with slower responses to numerically close numbers pairs. RA/LC and RC/LA tDCS had distinct effects on CRT performance, specifically affecting vigilance level during the final block of the task. No effect of stimulation on the Posner task or RVP was found. It was demonstrated that oppositional parietal tDCS affected both numerical performance and vigilance level in a polarity-dependent manner. The effect of tDCS on numerical processing may partly be due to attentional effects. The behavioural effects of tDCS were specifically observed under high task demands, demonstrating the consequences of an interaction between stimulation type and cognitive load.
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