The use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in cognitive neuroscience: a new synthesis of methodological issues

M Sandrini, C Umiltà, E Rusconi - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has become a mainstay of cognitive neuroscience,
thus facing new challenges due to its widespread application on behaviorally silent areas. In …

Left inferior parietal lobe engagement in social cognition and language

D Bzdok, G Hartwigsen, A Reid, AR Laird… - Neuroscience & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Social cognition and language are two core features of the human species. Despite
distributed recruitment of brain regions in each mental capacity, the left parietal lobe (LPL) …

Methodology for combined TMS and EEG

RJ Ilmoniemi, D Kičić - Brain topography, 2010 - Springer
The combination of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with simultaneous
electroencephalography (EEG) provides us the possibility to non-invasively probe the …

Optimizing functional accuracy of TMS in cognitive studies: a comparison of methods

AT Sack, RC Kadosh, T Schuhmann… - Journal of cognitive …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a tool for inducing transient disruptions of neural
activity noninvasively in conscious human volunteers. In recent years, the investigative …

Noninvasive brain stimulation improves language learning

A Flöel, N Rösser, O Michka, S Knecht… - Journal of cognitive …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a reliable technique to improve motor
learning. We here wanted to test its potential to enhance associative verbal learning, a skill …

fMRI-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals that the superior temporal sulcus is a cortical locus of the McGurk effect

MS Beauchamp, AR Nath, S Pasalar - Journal of Neuroscience, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
A compelling example of auditory–visual multisensory integration is the McGurk effect, in
which an auditory syllable is perceived very differently depending on whether it is …

Transcranial direct current stimulation over Broca's region improves phonemic and semantic fluency in healthy individuals

Z Cattaneo, A Pisoni, C Papagno - Neuroscience, 2011 - Elsevier
Previous studies have demonstrated that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can
be proficiently used to modulate attentional and cognitive functions. For instance, in the …

Efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation/transcranial direct current stimulation in cognitive neurorehabilitation

C Miniussi, SF Cappa, LG Cohen, A Floel, F Fregni… - Brain stimulation, 2008 - Elsevier
Cognitive deficits are a common consequence of neurologic disease, in particular, of
traumatic brain injury, stroke, and neurodegenerative disorders, and there is evidence that …

Noninvasive brain stimulation: Multiple effects on cognition

G Hartwigsen, J Silvanto - The Neuroscientist, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Noninvasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques are widely used tools for the study and
rehabilitation of cognitive functions. Different NIBS approaches aim to enhance or impair …

Enhancing language performance with non-invasive brain stimulation—a transcranial direct current stimulation study in healthy humans

R Sparing, M Dafotakis, IG Meister… - Neuropsychologia, 2008 - Elsevier
In humans, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can be used to induce, depending
on polarity, increases or decreases of cortical excitability by polarization of the underlying …