Enhancement of selective attention by tDCS: Interaction with interference in a Sternberg task☆
Highlights
► Transcranial direct current stimulation improves working memory. ► We studied whether tDCS affects selective attention in particular. ► Subjects performed a Sternberg task involving interference. ► TDCS improved performance only on probes involving distracter stimuli. ► Selective attention thus appears to be improved by tDCS.
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2021, Clinical NeurophysiologyCitation Excerpt :During tDCS, low electrical current increases the excitability of neurons close to the anode and the stimulation effects remain visible up to several hours after termination of the stimulation (Nitsche and Paulus, 2000; Reinhart et al., 2017). Positive effects for single sessions of tDCS over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLFPC) were found for several cognitive domains including attention (i.e., a Sternberg task; Gladwin et al. 2012) and speed of processing (Plewnia et al., 2015) in young adults. For working memory (WM) it seems like a training with repeated sessions in combination with tDCS is more effective than single sessions (Mancuso et al., 2016).
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The authors are supported by VICI award 453.08.01 from the Netherlands National Science Foundation (N.W.O.) and FMG-UvA Research Priority Grant on Affect-Regulation.