ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2022
Neuromodulatory effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on language performance in healthy participants: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation over the Left Inferior Parietal Lobule Facilitates Early-Stage Processing During Natural Chinese-English Bilingual Reading.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- A Novel Approach to Map the Causal Impact of Brain Stimulation on Semantic Processing With Language Models.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Continuous Theta-Burst Stimulation on the Left Posterior Inferior Frontal Gyrus Perturbs Complex Syntactic Processing Stability in Mandarin Chinese.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Brain State-Dependent Non-Invasive Neurostimulation with EEG Feedback: Achievements and Prospects (Review).Sovremennye tekhnologii v meditsine · 2023Review
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Abstract
Background: The causal relationships between neural substrates and human language have been investigated by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). However, the robustness of TMS neuromodulatory effects is still largely unspecified. This study aims to systematically examine the efficacy of TMS on healthy participants' language performance. Methods: For this meta-analysis, we searched Results: Thirty-seven studies (797 participants) with 77 effect sizes were included. The three-level random effects model revealed significant overall TMS effects on language performance in healthy participants (RT: Discussion: Overall, the results show that TMS may robustly modulate healthy adults' language performance and scrutinize the brain-and-language relation in a profound fashion. However, due to limited sample size and constraints in the current meta-analysis approach, analyses at a more comprehensive level were not conducted and results need to be confirmed by future studies. Systematic review registration: [https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.php?RecordID=366481], identifier [CRD42022366481].
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