Stimulating prefrontal cortex facilitates training transfer by increasing representational overlap.

ABSTRACT: A recent hypothesis characterizes difficulties in multitasking as being the price humans pay for our ability to generalize learning across tasks. The mitigation of these costs through training has been associated with reduced overlap of constituent task representations within frontal, parietal, and subcortical regions. Transcranial direct current stimulation, which can modulate functional brain activity, has shown promise in generalizing performance gains when combined with multitasking training. However, the relationship between combined transcranial direct current stimulation and training protocols with task-associated representational overlap in the brain remains unexplored. Here, we paired prefrontal cortex transcranial direct current stimulation with multitasking training in 178 indiv

SUBMITTER: Wards Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11654026 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature