No effects of the theta-frequency transcranial electrical stimulation for recall, attention control, and relation integration in working memory.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Recent studies have suggested that transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), and especially the theta-frequency tACS, can improve human performance on working memory tasks. However, evidence to date is mixed. Moreover, the two WM tasks applied most frequently, namely the n-back and change-detection tasks, might not constitute canonical measures of WM capacity.

Method

In a relatively large sample of young healthy participants (N = 62), we administered a more canonical WM task that required stimuli recall, as well as we applied two WM tasks tapping into other key WM functions: attention control (the antisaccade task) and relational integration (the graph mapping task). The participants performed these three tasks three times: during the left fron

SUBMITTER: Ociepka M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10910036 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature