ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
The Effect of Alpha tACS on the Temporal Resolution of Visual Perception.
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- Modulating somatosensory alpha oscillations using short-period transcranial alternating current stimulation.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Exploring the correlation and causation between alpha oscillations and one-second time perception through EEG and tACS.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Lesion network guided delta frequency neuromodulation improves cognition in patients with psychosis spectrum disorders: A pilot study.Asian journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Alpha peak frequency affects visual performance beyond temporal resolution.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
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- Can visual cortex non-invasive brain stimulation improve normal visual function? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Evidence for a theta-band behavioural oscillation in rapid face detection.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Article
- Testing the effect of tACS over parietal cortex in modulating endogenous alpha rhythm and temporal integration windows in visual perception.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Article
- Effects of Rhythmic Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Alpha-Band on Visual Perception Depend on Deviation From Alpha-Peak Frequency: Faster Relative Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Alpha-Pace Improves Performance.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Mental fatigue decreases complexity: Evidence from multiscale entropy analysis of instantaneous frequency variation in alpha rhythm.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Speed of Processing (SoP) Training Plus α-tACS in People With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Double Blind, Parallel, Placebo Controlled Trial Study Protocol.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Effects of tACS-Like Electrical Stimulation on Off- and On-Off Center Retinal Ganglion Cells: Part II.Eye and brain · 2022Article
- Effects of tACS-Like Electrical Stimulation on Correlated Firing of Retinal Ganglion Cells: Part III.Eye and brain · 2022Article
- Resting state alpha oscillatory activity is a valid and reliable marker of schizotypy.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
We experience the world around us as a smooth and continuous flow. However, there is growing evidence that the stream of sensory inputs is not elaborated in an analog way but is instead organized in discrete or quasi-discrete temporal processing windows. These discrete windows are suggested to depend on rhythmic neural activity in the alpha (and theta) frequency bands, which in turn reflect changes in neural activity within, and coupling between, cortical areas. In the present study, we investigated a possible causal link between oscillatory brain activity in the alpha range (8-12 Hz) and the temporal resolution of visual perception, which determines whether sequential stimuli are perceived as distinct entities or combined into a single representation. To this aim, we employed a two-flash fusion task while participants received focal transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) in extra-striate visual regions including V5/MT of the right hemisphere. Our findings show that 10-Hz tACS, as opposed to a placebo (sham tACS), reduces the temporal resolution of perception, inducing participants to integrate the two stimuli into a unique percept more often. This pattern was observed only in the contralateral visual hemifield, providing further support for a specific effect of alpha tACS. The present findings corroborate the idea of a causal link between temporal windows of integration/segregation and oscillatory alpha activity in V5/MT and extra-striate visual regions. They also stimulate future research on possible ways to shape the temporal resolution of human vision in an individualized manner.
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