RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Saccades, attentional orienting and disengagement: the effects of anodal tDCS over right posterior parietal cortex (PPC) and frontal eye field (FEF)
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2021.01.25.428095
DO 10.1101/2021.01.25.428095
A1 Lorenzo Diana
A1 Patrick Pilastro
A1 Edoardo N. Aiello
A1 Aleksandra K. Eberhard-Moscicka
A1 René M. Müri
A1 Nadia Bolognini
YR 2021
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/01/26/2021.01.25.428095.abstract
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.