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ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2024

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex reduced attentional bias toward natural emotional sounds.

Linzi Wang, Tongtong Zhu, Aijun Wang, Yanmei Wang

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Article in Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Linzi WangShanghai Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Psychological Crisis Intervention, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, No. 3663, North Zhong Shan Road, Shanghai, 200062, China.
Tongtong ZhuShanghai Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Psychological Crisis Intervention, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, No. 3663, North Zhong Shan Road, Shanghai, 200062, China.
Aijun WangDepartment of Psychology, Research Center for Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, China. ajwang@suda.edu.cn.
Yanmei WangShanghai Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Psychological Crisis Intervention, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, No. 3663, North Zhong Shan Road, Shanghai, 200062, China. ymwang@psy.ecnu.edu.cn.

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the Humanity and Social Science fund of Ministry of Education of China 20YJA190008the Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Science of Anhui Province on Adolescent Mental Health and Crisis Intelligence Intervention SYS2024XXXthe scientific and technological innovation 2030 - the major project of the Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Technology 2021ZD0200500
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Abstract

Previous research has indicated that the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) exerts an influence on attentional bias toward visual emotional information. However, it remains unclear whether the left DLPFC also play an important role in attentional bias toward natural emotional sounds. The current research employed the emotional spatial cueing paradigm, incorporating natural emotional sounds of considerable ecological validity as auditory cues. Additionally, high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) was utilized to examine the impact of left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) on attentional bias and its subcomponents, namely attentional engagement and attentional disengagement. The results showed that (1) compared to sham condition, anodal HD-tDCS over the left DLPFC reduced the attentional bias toward positive and negative sounds; (2) anodal HD-tDCS over the left DLPFC reduced the attentional engagement toward positive and negative sounds, whereas it did not affect attentional disengagement away from natural emotional sounds. Taken together, the present study has shown that left DLPFC, which was closely related with the top-down attention regulatory function, plays an important role in auditory emotional attentional bias.

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Attentional BiasAuditory PerceptionDorsolateral Prefrontal CortexEmotionsTranscranial Direct Current StimulationAcoustic StimulationAdultAttentionCuesFemaleHumansMalePrefrontal CortexYoung AdultAttentional biasEmotional spatial cueing paradigmLeft dorsolateral prefrontal cortexNatural emotional soundsTranscranial direct current stimulation

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