ArticleBrain sciences2021
Modulation of Visual Working Memory Performance via Different Theta Frequency Stimulations.
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- Is transcranial alternating current stimulation effective for improving working memory? A three-level meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Pooled it
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- Sensory stimulation enhances visual working memory capacity.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Improving working memory by electrical stimulation and cross-frequency coupling.Molecular brain · 2024Article
- Transcranial Electrical Stimulation: Clinical Implication and Practice for Treatment of Psychiatric Illness.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024Review
- Causal functional maps of brain rhythms in working memory.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- No effects of the theta-frequency transcranial electrical stimulation for recall, attention control, and relation integration in working memory.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Theta transcranial alternating current stimulation over the prefrontal cortex enhances theta power and working memory performance.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Comparison of transcranial brain stimulation approaches: prefrontal theta alternating current stimulation enhances working memory performance.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Determining the Individual Theta Frequency for Associative Memory Targeted Personalized Transcranial Brain Stimulation.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Working Memory and Transcranial-Alternating Current Stimulation-State of the Art: Findings, Missing, and Challenges.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Boosting working memory: uncovering the differential effects of tDCS and tACS.Cerebral cortex communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
Previous studies have found that transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) can significantly enhance individuals' working memory performance. However, it is still unclear whether the memory performance enhancement was attributed to the quantity or the quality of working memory. The current study applies tACS over the right parietal cortex at slower (4 Hz) and faster (7 Hz) frequencies to participants with high and low working memory capacities in a color recall memory task. This enabled us to explore the tACS effects on the quantity and quality of the working memory for individuals with different memory capacities. The results revealed that slower frequency (4 Hz) tACS enhanced the quality of memory representations, and faster frequency (7 Hz) tACS principally impaired the quantity of working memory. The underlying mechanism of this effect might be that tACS at different frequencies modulate the memory resources, which then selectively affect the quantity and quality of memory representations. Importantly, individual traits, as well as memory strategies, may be crucial factors to consider when testing the effect of tACS on working memory performance.
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