ArticleNeuropsychologia2016
Cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation over posterior parietal cortex enhances distinct aspects of visual working memory.
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- Frontoparietal Brain Network Plays a Crucial Role in Working Memory Capacity during Complex Cognitive Task.eNeuro · 2024Trial
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- The oblique effect in visual working memory is enhanced by distraction, regardless of tDCS manipulations.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
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- Sensory stimulation enhances visual working memory capacity.Communications psychology · 2024Article
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- Site Dependency of Anodal Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation on Reaction Time and Transfer of Learning during a Sequential Visual Isometric Pinch Task.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Individual response to transcranial direct current stimulation as a function of working memory capacity and electrode montage.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Effects of Multisession Prefrontal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Long-term Memory and Working Memory in Older Adults.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- Inter-Individual Variability in tDCS Effects: A Narrative Review on the Contribution of Stable, Variable, and Contextual Factors.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Gamma oscillations modulate working memory recall precision.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Customized Application of tDCS for Clinical Rehabilitation in Alzheimer's Disease.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation over frontal, parietal and cerebellar cortex for cognitive function during fasting in healthy adults.IBRO reports · 2020Article
- Transcranial direct current stimulation influences bilingual language control mechanism: evidence from cross-frequency coupling.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2020Article
- Non-invasive Brain Stimulation of the Posterior Parietal Cortex Alters Postural Adaptation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Unraveling Causal Mechanisms of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Visuospatial Attention with Non-invasive Brain Stimulation.Journal of the Indian Institute of Science · 2019Article
- Electrical Stimulation Over Human Posterior Parietal Cortex Selectively Enhances the Capacity of Visual Short-Term Memory.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- The neural correlates of flow experience explored with transcranial direct current stimulation.Experimental brain research · 2018Article
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- Increased contextual cue utilization with tDCS over the prefrontal cortex during a recognition task.Brain research · 2017Article
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Abstract
In this study, we investigated the effects of tDCS over the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) during a visual working memory (WM) task, which probes different sources of response error underlying the precision of WM recall. In two separate experiments, we demonstrated that tDCS enhanced WM precision when applied bilaterally over the PPC, independent of electrode configuration. In a third experiment, we demonstrated with unilateral electrode configuration over the right PPC, that only cathodal tDCS enhanced WM precision and only when baseline performance was low. Looking at the effects on underlying sources of error, we found that cathodal stimulation enhanced the probability of correct target response across all participants by reducing feature-misbinding. Only for low-baseline performers, cathodal stimulation also reduced variability of recall. We conclude that cathodal- but not anodal tDCS can improve WM precision by preventing feature-misbinding and hereby enhancing attentional selection. For low-baseline performers, cathodal tDCS also protects the memory trace. Furthermore, stimulation over bilateral PPC is more potent than unilateral cathodal tDCS in enhancing general WM precision.
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