Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on the Recognition of Bodily Emotions from Point-Light Displays.

ABSTRACT: Perceiving human motion, recognizing actions, and interpreting emotional body language are tasks we perform daily and which are supported by a network of brain areas including the human posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS). Here, we applied transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with anodal (excitatory) or cathodal (inhibitory) electrodes mounted over right pSTS (target) and orbito-frontal cortex (reference) while healthy participants performed a bodily emotion recognition task using biological motion point-light displays (PLDs). Performance (accuracy and reaction times) was also assessed on a control task which was matched to the emotion recognition task in terms of cognitive and motor demands. Each subject participated in two experimental sessions, receiving either anodal or

SUBMITTER: Vonck S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4522557 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature