ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2019
The Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Working Memory Training in Healthy Young Adults.
Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
48 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 95 citations in OpenAlex.
- Chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment and non-pharmacological interventions targeting the nervous system: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Transcranial direct current stimulation combined with cognitive training for working memory in healthy adults: a systematic review and robust variance meta-analysis of trained and untrained outcomes.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
- Identifying regions in prefrontal cortex related to working memory improvement: A novel meta-analytic method using electric field modeling.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Cognitive Performance and Cerebral Oxygen Hemodynamics: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Pooled it
- Transcranial direct current stimulation combined with caffeine promotes executive function in healthy females.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2025Trial
- Frontoparietal Brain Network Plays a Crucial Role in Working Memory Capacity during Complex Cognitive Task.eNeuro · 2024Trial
- A new perspective for evaluating the efficacy of tACS and tDCS in improving executive functions: A combined tES and fNIRS study.Human brain mapping · 2024Trial
- Impact of tDCS on working memory training is enhanced by strategy instructions in individuals with low working memory capacity.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- The effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on within- and cross-paradigm transfer following multi-session backward recall training.Brain and cognition · 2020Trial
- Reduced Pavlovian Value Updating Alters Decision-Making in Sign-Trackers.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Haemodynamic correlates of bilateral 6 Hz transcranial alternating current stimulation during working memory enhancement revealed by fNIRS.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Improving auditory alarm sensitivity during simulated aeronautical decision-making: the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation combined with computerized working memory training.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2025Article
- Challenging Cognitive Load Theory: The Role of Educational Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence in Redefining Learning Efficacy.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Reducing financial misreporting behaviour with noninvasive brain stimulation: the moderating effect of moral judgement.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- A review on the reporting and assessment of adverse effects associated with high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Review
- Multisession transcranial direct current stimulation and memory-associated cognitive functions in healthy young adults.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neurotechnology for enhancing human operation of robotic and semi-autonomous systems.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2025Review
- Dysgraphia and Memory: Insights into the Cognitive Mechanisms, Neural Correlates, and Intervention Strategies.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2024Review
- Article
- High-definition transcranial direct current stimulation of the parietal cortices modulates the neural dynamics underlying verbal working memory.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Working memory (WM) is a fundamental cognitive ability to support complex thought, but it is limited in capacity. WM training has shown the potential benefit for those in need of a higher WM ability. Many studies have shown the potential of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to transiently enhance WM performance by delivering a low current to the brain cortex of interest,
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.