The tDCS effect on alpha brain oscillation for correct vs. incorrect object use. The contribution of the left DLPFC

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 517, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-29

  Balconi, Michela ^a   Vitaloni, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action representation; Alpha band; DLPFC; Semantic incongruence; TDCS

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860575369     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Ardolino G., Bossi B., Barbieri S., Priori A. Non-synaptic mechanisms underlie the after-effects of cathodal transcutaneous direct current stimulation of the human brain. Journal of Physiology 2005, 15:653-663.
2. Bach P., Gunter T.C., Knoblich G., Prinz W., Friederici A.D. N400-like negativities in action perception reflect the activation of two components of an action representation. Social Neuroscience 2009, 4:212-232.
3. Balconi M., Caldiroli C.L. Semantic violation effect on object-related action comprehension. N400-like ERP in a non linguistic task. Neuroscience 2011, 197:191-199.
4. Balconi M., Crivelli D. Veridical and false feedback sensitivity and punishment-reward system (BIS/BAS): ERP amplitude and theta frequency band analysis. Clinical Neurophysiology 2010, 121:1502-1510.
5. Balconi M., Scioli S. Error monitoring functions in response to an external feedback when an explicit judgment is required. ERP modulation and cortical source localization, International Journal of Psychophysiology 2012, 83:295-301.
6. Balconi M., Pozzoli U. ERPs, morphed facial expressions elicited a N400 ERP effect: a domain specific semantic module?. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 2005, 46:467-474.
7. Balconi M., Pozzoli U. N400 and P600 or the role of the ERP correlates in sentence comprehension: some applications to the Italian language. Journal of General Psychology 2004, 3:268-304.
8. Balconi M., Pozzoli U. Comprehending semantic and grammatical violations in Italian. N400 and P600 comparison with visual and auditory stimuli. Journal of Psycholinguist Research 2005, 34:71-98.
9. Bentin S., Mccarthy G., Wood C.C. Event-related potentials, lexical decision and semantic priming. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 1985, 60:343-355.
10. Brignani D., Pellicciari M.C., Miniussi C. Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on electroencephalographic activity. Neuropsychological Trends 2010, 8:81-83.
11. Cohen M.X. Error-related medial frontal theta activity predicts cingulate-related structural connectivity. Neuropsychologia 2011, 55:1373-1383.
12. Federmeier K.D., Kutas M. Meaning and modality: influences of context, semantic memory organization, and perceptual predictability on picture processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition 2001, 27:202-224.
13. Fertonani A., Rosini S., Cotelli M., Rossini P.M., Miniussi C. Naming facilitation induced by transcranial direct current stimulation. Behavioural Brain Research 2010, 208:311-318.
14. Friederici A.D., Ruschemeyer S.A., Hahne A., Fiebach C.J. The role of left inferior frontal and superior temporal cortex in sentence comprehension: localizing syntactic and semantic processes. Cerebral Cortex 2003, 13:170-177.
15. Ganis G., Kutas M. An electrophysiological study of scene effects on object identification. Cognitive Brain Research 2003, 16:123-144.
16. Hagoort P., Hald L., Bastiaanses M., Petersson K.M. Integration of word meaning and world knowledge in language comprehension. Science 2004, 304:438-441.
17. Jasper H.H. The ten-twenty electrode system of International Federation EEG. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 1958, 10:371-375.
18. Keeser D., Padberg F., Reisinger E., Pogarell O., Kirsch V., Palm U., Karch S., Möller H.-J., Nitsche M.A., Mulert C. Prefrontal direct current stimulation modulates resting EEG and event-related potentials in healthy subjects: a standardized low resolution tomography (sLORETA) study. Neuroimage 2011, 55:644-657.
19. Kemmerer D., Castillo J.G., Talavage T., Patterson S., Wiley C. Neuroanatomical distribution of five semantic components of verbs: evidence from fMRI. Brain and Language 2007, 107:16-43.
20. Kuperberg G.R., Sitnikova T., Lakshmanan B.M. Neuroanatomical distinctions within the semantic system during sentence comprehension: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging. Neuroimage 2008, 40:367-388.
21. Kutas M., Hillyard S.A. Reading senseless sentences: brain potentials reflect semantic incongruity. Science 1980, 207:203-205.
22. Kutas M., Hillyard S.A. Brain potentials during reading reflect word expectancy and semantic association. Nature 1984, 307:161-163.
23. Liuzzi G., Freundlieb N., Ridder V., Hoppe J., Heise K., Zimerman M., Dobel C., Enriquez-Geppert S., Gerloff C., Zwitserlood P., Hummel F.C. The involvement of the left motor cortex in learning of a novel action word lexicon. Current Biology 2010, 20:1745-1751.
24. Ludwig K.A., Miriani R.M., Langhals N.B., Joseph M.D., Anderson D.j., Kipke D.R. Using a common average reference to improve cortical neuron recordings from microelectrode arrays. Journal of Neurophysiology 2008, 101:1679-1689.
25. Marshall L., Moller M., Hallschmind M., Born J. Transcranial direct current stimulation during sleep improves declarative memory. Journal of Neuroscience 2004, 24:9985-9992.
26. Murray L.J., Ranganath C. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex contributes to successful relational memory encoding. Journal of Neuroscience 2007, 27:5515-5522.
27. Pellicciari M.C., Brignani D., Miniussi C. Transcranial direct current stimulation effects on spontaneous and evoked cortical activity. Clinical Neurophysiology 2011, 122:123-124.
28. Pfurtscheller G. Event-related synchronization (ERS): an electrophysiological correlate of cortical areas at rest. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 1992, 83:62-69.
29. Proverbio M.A., Riva F., Zani A. When neurons do not mirror the agent's intentions: sex differences in neural coding of goal-directed actions. Neuropsychologia 2010, 48:1454-1463.
30. Shibata H., Gyoba J., Suzuki Y. Event-related potentials during the evaluation of the appropriateness of cooperative actions. Neuroscience Letters 2009, 452:189-193.
31. Sitnikova T., Holcomb P.J., Kiyonaga K.A., Kuperberg G.R. Two neurocognitive mechanisms of semantic integration during the comprehension of visual real-world events. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2008, 20:2037-2057.
32. Van Dam V.O., Rueschemeyer S.A., Lindemann O., Bekkering H. Context effects in embodied lexical-semantic processing. Frontiers in Psychology 2010, 1:1-6.
33. Van Elk M., van Schie H.A.T., Bekkering O. N400-concreteness effect reflects the retrieval of semantic information during the preparation of meaningful actions. Biological Psychology 2010, 85:134-142.