No Effect of the Right Posterior Parietal Cortex tDCS in Dual-Target Visual Search
“Subsequent search misses” represent a decrease in accuracy at detecting a second target in a visual search task. In this study, we tested the possibility to modulate this effect via inhibition of the right posterior parietal cortex trough transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). The target s...
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| author | Alyona A. Lanina Matteo Feurra Elena S. Gorbunova |
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| description | “Subsequent search misses” represent a decrease in accuracy at detecting a second target in a visual search task. In this study, we tested the possibility to modulate this effect via inhibition of the right posterior parietal cortex trough transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). The target stimuli were T-shapes presented among L-shaped distractors. The participant’s task was to detect targets or to report their absence. For each trial, targets could be represented by one high-salient target, one low-salient target, two different targets (one high salient and one low salient), two high salient targets, two low salient targets, or no targets at all (catch-trials). Offline tDCS was applied over the right (target site) or left (control site) posterior parietal cortex. Sham stimulation over the right posterior parietal cortex was included as a control (placebo). Stimulation lasted for 10 min. Afterward, participants were asked to perform the experiment. Our findings suggest that stimulation did not modulate any of the task conditions, suggesting potential limitation of the study: either tDCS was not enough powerful to modulate the task performance or the task was too easy to be modulated by stimulation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-774bd7fa681f4350ac3cd2c5eea97b3a2022-12-22T01:55:17ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782018-11-01910.3389/fpsyg.2018.02112414506No Effect of the Right Posterior Parietal Cortex tDCS in Dual-Target Visual SearchAlyona A. Lanina0Matteo Feurra1Elena S. Gorbunova2Laboratory of Digital Interface User’s Cognitive Psychology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, RussiaCentre for Cognition & Decision Making, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, RussiaLaboratory of Digital Interface User’s Cognitive Psychology, School of Psychology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia“Subsequent search misses” represent a decrease in accuracy at detecting a second target in a visual search task. In this study, we tested the possibility to modulate this effect via inhibition of the right posterior parietal cortex trough transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). The target stimuli were T-shapes presented among L-shaped distractors. The participant’s task was to detect targets or to report their absence. For each trial, targets could be represented by one high-salient target, one low-salient target, two different targets (one high salient and one low salient), two high salient targets, two low salient targets, or no targets at all (catch-trials). Offline tDCS was applied over the right (target site) or left (control site) posterior parietal cortex. Sham stimulation over the right posterior parietal cortex was included as a control (placebo). Stimulation lasted for 10 min. Afterward, participants were asked to perform the experiment. Our findings suggest that stimulation did not modulate any of the task conditions, suggesting potential limitation of the study: either tDCS was not enough powerful to modulate the task performance or the task was too easy to be modulated by stimulation.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02112/fullvisual searchsubsequent search missestDCSposterior parietal cortexvisual attention |
| spellingShingle | Alyona A. Lanina Matteo Feurra Elena S. Gorbunova No Effect of the Right Posterior Parietal Cortex tDCS in Dual-Target Visual Search Frontiers in Psychology visual search subsequent search misses tDCS posterior parietal cortex visual attention |
| title | No Effect of the Right Posterior Parietal Cortex tDCS in Dual-Target Visual Search |
| title_full | No Effect of the Right Posterior Parietal Cortex tDCS in Dual-Target Visual Search |
| title_fullStr | No Effect of the Right Posterior Parietal Cortex tDCS in Dual-Target Visual Search |
| title_full_unstemmed | No Effect of the Right Posterior Parietal Cortex tDCS in Dual-Target Visual Search |
| title_short | No Effect of the Right Posterior Parietal Cortex tDCS in Dual-Target Visual Search |
| title_sort | no effect of the right posterior parietal cortex tdcs in dual target visual search |
| topic | visual search subsequent search misses tDCS posterior parietal cortex visual attention |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02112/full |
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