ArticleJournal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice2019
Neuroenhancement of High-Level Cognition: Evidence for Homeostatic Constraints of Non-invasive Brain Stimulation.
Article in Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Pooled it
- Understanding the Effects of Transcranial Electrical Stimulation in Numerical Cognition: A Systematic Review for Clinical Translation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Focusing on cognitive potential as the bright side of mental atypicality.Communications biology · 2022Review
- Non-invasive brain stimulation and neuroenhancement.Clinical neurophysiology practice · 2022Review
- Personalized brain stimulation for effective neurointervention across participants.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- The Downsides of Cognitive Enhancement.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2021Article
- The critical role of phase difference in theta oscillation between bilateral parietal cortices for visuospatial working memory.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
Neuroenhancement aims to improve cognitive performance in typically and atypically functioning populations. However, it is currently debated whether it is also effective in exceptionally high-functioning individuals. Present theories suggest that homeostatic set points for learning and cortical plasticity limit the beneficial effects of neuroenhancement. To examine this possibility, we used transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) to non-invasively stimulate bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortices (DLPFC) of the world champion in mental calculation, G.M. TRNS did not change G.M.'s calculation performance compared to sham stimulation on an exceptionally complex arithmetic task. However, a sample of mathematicians who were not calculation prodigies (
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