ArticleBrain sciences2021
Blinding in tDCS Studies: Correct End-of-Study Guess Does Not Moderate the Effects on Associative and Working Memory.
Article in Brain sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Theta tACS impairs episodic memory more than tDCS.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- Sham tDCS controls: blinding, reliability, and a specification-grade checklist.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Review
- Beta tACS of varying intensities differentially affect resting-state and movement-related M1-M1 connectivity.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Reverse effect of home-use binaural beats brain stimulation.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Transcranial Electrical Stimulation for Associative Memory Enhancement: State-of-the-Art from Basic to Clinical Research.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Non-linear dose response effect of cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation on muscle strength in young healthy adults: a randomized controlled study.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2023Article
- The Effect of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Error Rates in the Distractor-Induced Deafness Paradigm.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Personalized Frequency Modulated Transcranial Electrical Stimulation for Associative Memory Enhancement.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Modulating Cognitive-Motor Multitasking with Commercial-off-the-Shelf Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Pain reduction in fibromyalgia syndrome through pairing transcranial direct current stimulation and mindfulness meditation: A randomized, double-blinded, sham-controlled pilot clinical trial.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has become a valuable tool in cognitive neuroscience research as it enables causal inferences about neural underpinnings of cognition. However, studies using tDCS to modulate cognitive functions often yield inconsistent findings. Hence, there is an increasing interest in factors that may moderate the effects, one of which is the participants' beliefs of the tDCS condition (i.e., real or sham) they received. Namely, whether participants' correct guessing of sham condition may lead to false-positive tDCS effects. In this study, we aimed to explore if participants' beliefs about received stimulation type (i.e., the success of blinding) impacted their task performance in tDCS experiments on associative (AM) and working memory (WM). We analyzed data from four within-subject, sham-controlled tDCS memory experiments (
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