1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, 2 Department of Neurobiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, 3 Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, 4 Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, 5 Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, University of Washingt...

The degree to which the perception of spoken emotion is lateralized in the brain remains a controversial topic. This work examines hemispheric differences in the perception of emotion in speech by applying tDCS, a neurostimulation protocol, to the T-RES speech emotion rating paradigm. We find several significant effects, including a strong interaction of prosody and neurostimulation for percept...

Neuroimaging studies have implicated the left supramarginal gyrus in short-term auditory memory processing, including memory for pitch. The present study investigated the causal role of the left supramarginal gyrus in short-term pitch memory by comparing the effects of cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation when applied over the left or right supramarginal gyrus with sham transcranial...

The authors wish to note that they discovered an error in the database of their paper “Efficacy and Interindividual Variability inMotor-Cortex Plasticity followingAnodal tDCS and Paired-Associative Stimulation” [1] after publication in Neural Plasticity. Due to a data export error, one subject was included twice in the database resulting in the situation that one dataset was completely overwrit...

Academic and public interest in tDCS has been fueled by strong claims of therapeutic and enhancement effects. We report a rising tide of tDCS coverage in the media, while regulatory action is lacking and ethical issues need to be addressed.

Interindividual response variability to various motor-cortex stimulation protocols has been recently reported. Comparative data of stimulation protocols with different modes of action is lacking. We aimed to compare the efficacy and response variability of two LTP-inducing stimulation protocols in the human motor cortex: anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (a-tDCS) and paired-associa...

There is evidence that noninvasive brain stimulation (NIBS), and especially transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), can improve some cognitive functions, at least temporarily. However, as the improvement only applies to some "lucky" people, it may raise ethical, social and legal issues related to fairness in selective contexts (exams, competitions, job interviews). In this regard, an im...

Through plasticity the brain is able to change its function and to rearrange following injury or environmental changes. In recent years, it was shown that non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques, especially transcra- nial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can contribute to understand how these plastic changes occur. Additionally, the literatu...

Several recent studies have reported non-linear effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), which has been attributed to an interaction between the stimulation parameters (e.g., current strength, duration) and the neural state of the cortex being stimulated (e.g., indexed by baseline performance ability, age) (see Fertonani and Miniussi, 2016). We have recently described one such...