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Altering brain dynamics with transcranial random noise stimulation.
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- Perceptual Learning of Multiple Object Tracking Is Not Enhanced by Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation of hMT.Translational vision science & technology · 2026Article
- Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity and Random Inputs Shape Interspike Interval Regularity of Model STN Neurons.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- Contrast detection is enhanced by deterministic, high-frequency transcranial alternating current stimulation with triangle and sine waveform.Journal of neurophysiology · 2023Article
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- Does stochastic resonance improve performance for individuals with higher autism-spectrum quotient?Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Transcranial random noise stimulation and exercise do not modulate ocular dominance plasticity in adults with normal vision.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Cerebellar transcranial current stimulation - An intraindividual comparison of different techniques.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation Acutely Lowers the Response Threshold of Human Motor Circuits.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- The effects of direct current stimulation and random noise stimulation on attention networks.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Repetitive visual cortex transcranial random noise stimulation in adults with amblyopia.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Random noise can enhance the detectability of weak signals in nonlinear systems, a phenomenon known as stochastic resonance (SR). This concept is not only applicable to single threshold systems but can also be applied to dynamical systems with multiple attractor states, such as observed during the phenomenon of binocular rivalry. Binocular rivalry can be characterized by marginally stable attractor states between which the brain switches in a spontaneous, stochastic manner. Here we used a computational model to predict the effect of noise on perceptual dominance durations. Subsequently we compared the model prediction to a series of experiments where we measured binocular rivalry dynamics when noise (zero-mean Gaussian random noise) was added either to the visual stimulus (Exp. 1) or directly to the visual cortex (Exp. 2) by applying transcranial Random Noise Stimulation (tRNS 1 mA, 100-640 Hz zero -mean Gaussian random noise). We found that adding noise significantly reduced the mixed percept duration (Exp. 1 and Exp. 2). Our results are the first to demonstrate that both central and peripheral noise can influence state-switching dynamics of binocular rivalry under specific conditions (e.g. low visual contrast stimuli), in line with a SR-mechanism.
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