Current challenges: the ups and downs of tACS

NS Bland, MV Sale - Experimental Brain Research, 2019 - Springer
The non-invasive delivery of electric currents through the scalp (transcranial electrical
stimulation) is a popular tool for neuromodulation, mostly due to its highly adaptable nature …

Binding mechanisms in visual perception and their link with neural oscillations: a review of evidence from tACS

A Ghiani, M Maniglia, L Battaglini, D Melcher… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Neurophysiological studies in humans employing magneto-(MEG) and electro-(EEG)
encephalography increasingly suggest that oscillatory rhythmic activity of the brain may be a …

[HTML][HTML] Frequency-specific transcranial neuromodulation of alpha power alters visuospatial attention performance

SK Kemmerer, AT Sack, TA de Graaf, S Ten Oever… - Brain Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) at 10 Hz has been shown to modulate
spatial attention. However, the frequency-specificity and the oscillatory changes underlying …

Face pareidolia is enhanced by 40 Hz transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) of the face perception network

A Palmisano, G Chiarantoni, F Bossi, A Conti… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Pareidolia refers to the perception of ambiguous sensory patterns as carrying a specific
meaning. In its most common form, pareidolia involves human-like facial features, where …

[HTML][HTML] Just a phase? Causal probing reveals spurious phasic dependence of sustained attention

M Vinao-Carl, Y Gal-Shohet, E Rhodes, J Li… - NeuroImage, 2024 - Elsevier
For over a decade, electrophysiological studies have reported correlations between
attention/perception and the phase of spontaneous brain oscillations. To date, these findings …

Spontaneous fluctuations in oscillatory brain state cause differences in transcranial magnetic stimulation effects within and between individuals

SEW Janssens, AT Sack - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can cause measurable effects on neural activity
and behavioral performance in healthy volunteers. In addition, TMS is increasingly used in …

[HTML][HTML] Boosting visual perceptual learning by transcranial alternating current stimulation over the visual cortex at alpha frequency

Q He, XY Yang, B Gong, K Bi, F Fang - Brain Stimulation, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) has been widely used to
alter ongoing brain rhythms in a frequency-specific manner to modulate relevant cognitive …

A comparison of closed loop vs. fixed frequency tACS on modulating brain oscillations and visual detection

HI Stecher, A Notbohm, FH Kasten… - Frontiers in Human …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Transcranial alternating current stimulation has emerged as an effective tool for the
exploration of brain oscillations. By applying a weak alternating current between electrodes …

No effects of rhythmic visual stimulation on target discrimination: An online alpha entrainment experiment

TA de Graaf, F Duecker - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Previous research established that rhythmic sensory stimulation can affect subsequent
stimulus perception, possibly through 'entrainment'of oscillations in the brain. Alpha …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying rhythmicity in perceptual reports

T Tosato, G Rohenkohl, JR Dowdall, P Fries - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Several recent studies investigated the rhythmic nature of cognitive processes that lead to
perception and behavioral report. These studies used different methods, and there has not …