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Frontotemporal stimulation modulates semantically-guided visual search during confrontation naming: A combined tDCS and eye tracking investigation.
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- Bigram semantic distance as an index of continuous semantic flow in natural language: Theory, tools, and applications.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2023Article
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Effects on the Neural Substrate of Conceptual Representations.Brain sciences · 2023Article
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- Eyetracking during picture naming predicts future vocabulary dropout in progressive anomia.Neuropsychological rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Testing the Reproducibility of the Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: Failure to Modulate Beauty Perception by Brain Stimulation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Altered functional connectivity of cortical networks in semantic variant Primary Progressive Aphasia.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2020Article
- The Effects of Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Sleep Time and Efficiency.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Use in Warfighting: Benefits, Risks, and Future Prospects.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Review
- Naming and Knowing Revisited: Eyetracking Correlates of Anomia in Progressive Aphasia.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) was paired with eye tracking to elucidate contributions of frontal, temporoparietal and anterior temporal cortex to early visual search patterns during picture naming (e.g., rapid visual scanning to diagnostic semantic features). Neurotypical adults named line drawings of objects prior to and following tDCS in three separate sessions, each employing a unique electrode montage. The gaze data revealed montage by stimulation (pre/post) interaction effects characterized by longer initial visual fixations (mean difference = 89 ms; Cohen's d = .8) and cumulative fixation durations (mean difference = 98 ms; Cohen's d = .9) on key semantic features (e.g., the head of an animal) after cathodal frontotemporal stimulation relative to the pre-stimulation baseline. We interpret these findings as reflecting a tDCS-induced modulation of semantic contributions of the anterior temporal lobe(s) to top-down influences on object recognition. Further, we discuss implications for the optimization of tDCS for the treatment of anomia in aphasia.
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