ArticlePloS one2020
Examining the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on human episodic memory with machine learning.
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- Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Cognitive Deficits in Depression: A Systematic Review.Psychiatry and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Pooled it
- HD-tDCS over the left DLPFC increases cued recall and subjective question familiarity rather than other aspects of memory and metamemory.Brain research · 2023Article
- Is blood-brain barrier a probable mediator of non-invasive brain stimulation effects on Alzheimer's disease?Communications biology · 2023Review
- Identifying the engagement of a brain network during a targeted tDCS-fMRI experiment using a machine learning approach.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- Left Prefrontal tDCS during Learning Does Not Enhance Subsequent Verbal Episodic Memory in Young Adults: Results from Two Double-Blind and Sham-Controlled Experiments.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Neuroimaging-ITM: A Text Mining Pipeline Combining Deep Adversarial Learning with Interaction Based Topic Modeling for Enabling the FAIR Neuroimaging Study.Neuroinformatics · 2022Article
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Abstract
We aimed to replicate a published effect of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS)-induced recognition enhancement over the human ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) and analyse the data with machine learning. We investigated effects over an adjacent region, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). In total, we analyzed data from 97 participants after exclusions. We found weak or absent effects over the VLPFC and DLPFC. We conducted machine learning studies to examine the effects of semantic and phonetic features on memorization, which revealed no effect of VLPFC tDCS on the original dataset or the current data. The highest contributing factor to memory performance was individual differences in memory not explained by word features, tDCS group, or sample size, while semantic, phonetic, and orthographic word characteristics did not contribute significantly. To our knowledge, this is the first tDCS study to investigate cognitive effects with machine learning, and future studies may benefit from studying physiological as well as cognitive effects with data-driven approaches and computational models.
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