PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lorenzo Diana
AU  - Patrick Pilastro
AU  - Edoardo N. Aiello
AU  - Aleksandra K. Eberhard-Moscicka
AU  - René M. Müri
AU  - Nadia Bolognini
TI  - Saccades, attentional orienting and disengagement: the effects of anodal tDCS over right posterior parietal cortex (PPC) and frontal eye field (FEF)
AID  - 10.1101/2021.01.25.428095
DP  - 2021 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 2021.01.25.428095
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/01/26/2021.01.25.428095.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/01/26/2021.01.25.428095.full
AB  - In the present work, we applied anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) and frontal eye field (FEF) of the right hemisphere in healthy subjects to modulate attentional orienting and disengagement in a gap-overlap task. Both stimulations led to bilateral improvements in saccadic reaction times (SRTs), with larger effects for gap trials. However, analyses showed that the gap effect was not affected by tDCS. Importantly, we observed significant effects of baseline performance that may mediate side- and task-specific effects of brain stimulation.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.