Abstract
This study investigated the effect of the high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) on sustained attention reaction. The HD-tDCS was applied to the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and the EEG signal was recorded simultaneously. We found that HD-tDCS could be used to enhance the reaction time and the N2 amplitude in response to the flanker stimuli changed significantly after the HD-tDCS stimulation. Moreover, the behavior enhancement was in accordance with the neural response. The HD-tDCS on DLPFC provides a way to enhance the subject’s attention to both the target task and the target task accompanied by distractors. The investigated approach may find application for digital medication in patients with attention problems, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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We thank all volunteers for their participation in the study. This work was partly supported by grants from the National Key R &D Program of China (2018YFA0701400), Key R &D Program of Zhejiang (no. 2022C03011), Chuanqi Research and Development Center of Zhejiang University, the Starry Night Science Fund of Zhejiang University Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study (SN-ZJU-SIAS-002), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Project for Hangzhou Medical Disciplines of Excellence, Key Project for Hangzhou Medical Disciplines, Research Project of State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration MSV202115.
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Zhao, J., Li, W., Yao, L. (2022). HD-tDCS Applied on DLPFC Cortex for Sustained Attention Enhancement: A Preliminary EEG Study. In: Liu, H., et al. Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13456. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13822-5_59
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