Trial reportHuman brain mapping2016
Behavioural and neurofunctional impact of transcranial direct current stimulation on somatosensory learning.
Trial report in Human brain mapping, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- A grating orientation task with controlled dome elevation speed and contact force: stimulus conditions and day-to-day reliability.MethodsX · 2026Article
- Effects of tDCS and tACS on operant tactile training: investigating individual differences in neuromodulation efficacy.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Modulatory effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on sensory gating in Fibromyalgia Syndrome.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Acute anodal transcranial direct current stimulation improves the performance of professional rowers.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Less might be more: 1 mA but not 1.5 mA of tDCS improves tactile orientation discrimination.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2023Article
- Effect of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Endurance Performance in Elite Female Rowers: A Pilot, Single-Blinded Study.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) in the primary motor cortex and its effects on sensorimotor function: a quasi-experimental single-blind sham-controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- tDCS modulates behavioral performance and the neural oscillatory dynamics serving visual selective attention.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
- tDCS Modulates Visual Gamma Oscillations and Basal Alpha Activity in Occipital Cortices: Evidence from MEG.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2018Article
- Somatosensory lateral inhibition processes modulate motor response inhibition - an EEG source localization study.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Transcranial direct-current stimulation modulates offline visual oscillatory activity: A magnetoencephalography study.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2017Article
- The Effect of Dual-Hemisphere Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Over the Parietal Operculum on Tactile Orientation Discrimination.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2017Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
We investigated the effect of repeated delivery of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on somatosensory performance and long-term learning. Over the course of five days, tDCS was applied to the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) by means of neuronavigation employing magnetencephalography (MEG). Compared to its sham application, tDCS promoted tactile learning by reducing the two-point discrimination threshold assessed by the grating orientation task (GOT) primarily by affecting intersessional changes in performance. These results were accompanied by alterations in the neurofunctional organization of the brain, as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging conducted prior to the study, at the fifth day of tDCS delivery and four weeks after the last application of tDCS. A decrease in activation at the primary site of anodal tDCS delivery in the left S1 along retention of superior tactile acuity was observed at follow-up four weeks after the application of tDCS. Thus, we demonstrate long-term effects that repeated tDCS imposes on somatosensory functioning. This is the first study to provide insight into the mode of operation of tDCS on the brain's response to long-term perceptual learning, adding an important piece of evidence from the domain of non-invasive brain stimulation to show that functional changes detectable by fMRI in primary sensory cortices participate in perceptual learning.
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