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Probing the Link Between Perception and Oscillations: Lessons from Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation.
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- Effects of transcranial electrical stimulation on face identification and related perceptual processes: a systematic review.Psychological research · 2026Pooled it
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- Gamma and Psychological Resilience: Where to Now?Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Sensory stimuli dominate over rhythmic electrical stimulation in modulating behavior.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Alters Auditory Steady-State Oscillatory Rhythms and Their Cross-Frequency Couplings.Clinical EEG and neuroscience · 2024Article
- No Benefit in Memory Performance after Nocturnal Memory Reactivation Coupled with Theta-tACS.Clocks & sleep · 2024Article
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- Application of transcranial alternating current stimulation to improve eSports-related cognitive performance.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Effects of cerebellar transcranial alternating current stimulation in cerebellar ataxia: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Pain control based on oscillatory brain activity using transcranial alternating current stimulation: An integrative review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Review
- Investigating the role of the foveal cortex in peripheral object discrimination.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Brain stimulation competes with ongoing oscillations for control of spike timing in the primate brain.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- Midfrontal-occipital θ-tACS modulates cognitive conflicts related to bodily stimuli.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
- Reliability of Neural Entrainment in the Human Auditory System.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Detection of Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Aftereffects Is Improved by Considering the Individual Electric Field Strength and Self-Rated Sleepiness.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Entrainment and Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity - A Review of Proposed Mechanisms of Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2022Review
- Motor Learning Based on Oscillatory Brain Activity Using Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation: A Review.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Reduced alpha amplitudes predict perceptual suppression.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Editorial: Neural Modulation of Conscious Perception: Emerging Approaches From Basic Research to Clinical Translation.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Brain oscillations are regarded as important for perception as they open and close time windows for neural spiking to enable the effective communication within and across brain regions. In the past, studies on perception primarily relied on the use of electrophysiological techniques for probing a correlative link between brain oscillations and perception. The emergence of noninvasive brain stimulation techniques such as transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) provides the possibility to study the causal contribution of specific oscillatory frequencies to perception. Here, we review the studies on visual, auditory, and somatosensory perception that employed tACS to probe the causality of brain oscillations for perception. The current literature is consistent with a causal role of alpha and gamma oscillations in parieto-occipital regions for visual perception and theta and gamma oscillations in auditory cortices for auditory perception. In addition, the sensory gating by alpha oscillations applies not only to the visual but also to the somatosensory domain. We conclude that albeit more refined perceptual paradigms and individualized stimulation practices remain to be systematically adopted, tACS is a promising tool for establishing a causal link between neural oscillations and perception.
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