A High-Definition tDCS and EEG study on attention and vigilance: Brain stimulation mitigates the executive but not the arousal vigilance decrement

Autor: Fernando Gabriel Luna, Pablo Barttfeld, Juan Lupiáñez, Elisa Martín-Arévalo, Rafael Román-Caballero
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
medicine.medical_specialty
HD-tDCS
Cognitive Neuroscience
media_common.quotation_subject
medicine.medical_treatment
Prefrontal Cortex
Poison control
Posterior parietal cortex
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Stimulation
Audiology
Electroencephalography
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
050105 experimental psychology
Arousal
CIENCIAS SOCIALES
03 medical and health sciences
Behavioral Neuroscience
0302 clinical medicine
Parietal Lobe
PHASIC ALERTNESS
medicine
Humans
Attention
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
AROUSAL VIGILANCE
media_common
Transcranial direct-current stimulation
medicine.diagnostic_test
05 social sciences
EXECUTIVE CONTROL
Otras Psicología
Psicología
Brain stimulation
EXECUTIVE VIGILANCE
Psychology
ORIENTING
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Vigilance (psychology)
Zdroj: Neuropsychologia. 142:107447
ISSN: 0028-3932
Popis: Attention comprises a wide set of processes such as phasic alertness, orienting, executive control, and the executive (i.e., detecting infrequent targets) and arousal (i.e., sustaining a fast reaction) vigilance components. Importantly, the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over attentional functioning have beenmostly addressed by measuring these processes separately and by delivering offline tDCS with low precision over the stimulation region. In the current study, we examined the effects of online High-Definition tDCS (HD-tDCS) over the behavioral and electrophysiological functioning of attentional and vigilance components. Participants (N ¼ 92) were randomly assigned to one of three stimulation groups: right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex stimulation, right posterior parietal cortex (PPC) stimulation, and sham. All of them performed in combination with the HD-tDCS protocol an attentional networks task (ANTI-Vea) suitable to measure the executive and arousal components of vigilance along with three typical attentional functions: phasic alertness, orienting, and executive control. In addition, EEG was registered at the baseline and at the post-stimulation period. We observed that, regardless the stimulation region, online HD-tDCS: (a) reduced phasic alertness (p < .008), but did not modulated the orienting and executive control functioning; and (b) mitigated the executive vigilance decrement (p < .011), but did not modulated arousal vigilance across time-on-task. Interestingly, only HD-tDCS over PPC reduced considerably the increment of alpha power observed across time-on-task (p < .009). The current study provides further evidence for both an empirical dissociation between vigilance components and the cortical regions underlying attentional processes. We highlight the advantages of using online HD-tDCS to examine the stimulationeffects on attentional and vigilance functioning. Fil: Luna, Fernando Gabriel. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas. - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas; Argentina. Universidad de Granada; España Fil: Román Caballero, Rafael. Universidad de Granada; España Fil: Barttfeld, Pablo. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas. - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas; Argentina Fil: Lupiáñez Castillo, Juan. Universidad de Granada; España Fil: Martín Arévalo, Elisa. Universidad de Granada; España
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