Brain diseases, including neurodegenerative, cerebrovascular and neuropsychiatric
diseases, have posed a deleterious threat to human health and brought a great burden to …

Non-invasive transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) as a newly
developed technique involves stimulating the cutaneous receptive field formed by the …

Background There are 9.9 million new cases of dementia in the world every year. Short-term
conversion rate from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia is between 20% and 40 …

After sensory information is encoded into neural signals at the periphery, it is processed
through multiple brain regions before perception occurs (ie, sensory processing). Recent …

Background Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) stimulating the
auricular branch of the vagus nerve along a well-defined neuroanatomical pathway, has …

Difficulty perceiving phonological contrasts in a second language (L2) can impede initial L2
lexical learning. Such is the case for English speakers learning tonal languages, like …

Neurostimulation, or stimulation of the nervous system, is a category of methods that
modulate neural activity and can be used to investigate and enhance L2 learning and …

Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation, which involves the application of electrical
currents to the cervical (tcVNS) or auricular (taVNS) branches of the vagus nerve, may be a …

Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) is an emerging non-invasive technique
designed to stimulate branches of the vagus nerve distributed over the body surface. Studies …

Cognitive flexibility is a prefrontal cortex-dependent neurocognitive process that enables
behavioral adaptation in response to changes in environmental contingencies. Electrical …