ArticleCerebral cortex communications2020
Modulation of Individual Alpha Frequency with tACS shifts Time Perception.
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- No significant relationship found between spontaneous motor tempo, heartbeat, and individual alpha frequency: an analysis of internal tempos.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Potentiation of Motor Adaptation Via Cerebellar tACS: Characterization of the Stimulation Frequency.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Article
- Exploring the correlation and causation between alpha oscillations and one-second time perception through EEG and tACS.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Factors influencing passage of time judgment in individuals' daily lives: evidence from the experience sampling and diary methods.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Neuroimaging Signatures of Metacognitive Improvement in Sensorimotor Timing.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
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- Calibrating rhythmic stimulation parameters to individual electroencephalography markers: The consistency of individual alpha frequency in practical lab settings.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Article
- Personalized Frequency Modulated Transcranial Electrical Stimulation for Associative Memory Enhancement.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Temporal binding window and sense of agency are related processes modifiable via occipital tACS.PloS one · 2021Article
- Individual alpha frequency predicts the sensitivity of time perception.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
Previous studies have linked brain oscillation and timing, with evidence suggesting that alpha oscillations (10 Hz) may serve as a "sample rate" for the visual system. However, direct manipulation of alpha oscillations and time perception has not yet been demonstrated. To test this, we had 18 human subjects perform a time generalization task with visual stimuli. Additionally, we had previously recorded resting-state EEG from each subject and calculated their individual alpha frequency (IAF), estimated as the peak frequency from the mean spectrum over posterior electrodes between 8 and 13 Hz. Participants first learned a standard interval (600 ms) and were then required to judge if a new set of temporal intervals were equal or different compared with that standard. After learning the standard, participants performed this task while receiving occipital transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS). Crucially, for each subject, tACS was administered at their IAF or at off-peak alpha frequencies (IAF ± 2 Hz). Results demonstrated a linear shift in the psychometric function indicating a modification of perceived duration, such that progressively "faster" alpha stimulation led to longer perceived intervals. These results provide the first evidence that direct manipulations of alpha oscillations can shift perceived time in a manner consistent with a clock speed effect.
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