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| Title |
Enhancing performance in numerical magnitude processing and mental arithmetic using transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00244 |
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| Authors |
Tobias U. Hauser, Stephanie Rotzer, Roland H. Grabner, Susan Mérillat, Lutz Jäncke |
| Abstract |
The ability to accurately process numerical magnitudes and solve mental arithmetic is of highest importance for schooling and professional career. Although impairments in these domains in disorders such as developmental dyscalculia (DD) are highly detrimental, remediation is still sparse. In recent years, transcranial brain stimulation methods such as transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) have been suggested as a treatment for various neurologic and neuropsychiatric disorders. The posterior parietal cortex (PPC) is known to be crucially involved in numerical magnitude processing and mental arithmetic. In this study, we evaluated whether tDCS has a beneficial effect on numerical magnitude processing and mental arithmetic. Due to the unclear lateralization, we stimulated the left, right as well as both hemispheres simultaneously in two experiments. We found that left anodal tDCS significantly enhanced performance in a number comparison and a subtraction task, while bilateral and right anodal tDCS did not induce any improvements compared to sham. Our findings demonstrate that the left PPC is causally involved in numerical magnitude processing and mental arithmetic. Furthermore, we show that these cognitive functions can be enhanced by means of tDCS. These findings encourage to further investigate the beneficial effect of tDCS in the domain of mathematics in healthy and impaired humans. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Italy | 2 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Israel | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 198 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Bachelor | 46 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 37 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 28 | 14% |
| Researcher | 27 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 12 | 6% |
| Other | 25 | 12% |
| Unknown | 29 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Psychology | 106 | 52% |
| Neuroscience | 21 | 10% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 6% |
| Engineering | 8 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 2% |
| Other | 12 | 6% |
| Unknown | 40 | 20% |
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