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| Title |
tDCS Modulatory Effect on Reading Processes: A Review of Studies on Typical Readers and Individuals With Dyslexia
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, July 2018
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00162 |
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| Authors |
Alice Cancer, Alessandro Antonietti |
| Abstract |
The possibility to use non-invasive brain stimulation to modulate reading performance in individuals with developmental dyslexia (DD) has been recently explored by few empirical investigations. The present systematic review includes nine studies which have employed transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) aiming at improving reading abilities in both typical readers and individuals with DD. Anodal tDCS over the left temporo-parietal cortex-a region which is typically involved in phonological and orthographic processing during reading tasks and underactive in individuals with DD-was the most frequently used montage. The majority of studies employing such stimulation protocol showed significant improvement in differential reading subprocesses. More precisely, word decoding was improved in adult readers, whereas non-word and low-frequency word reading in younger individuals. Furthermore, tDCS was found to be specifically effective in poor readers and individuals with DD rather than typical readers, in spite of the specific brain region targeted by the stimulation; Left frontal, left temporo-parietal, and right cerebellar tDCS failed to modulate reading in already proficient readers. Overall, tDCS appears to be a promising remedial tool for reading difficulties, even when applied to younger populations with reading problems. Further empirical evidence is needed to confirm the potential of neuromodulation as a successful intervention method for DD. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 3 | 50% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 17% |
| Japan | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 1 | 17% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 6 | 100% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 87 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 14 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 14% |
| Researcher | 9 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 14 | 16% |
| Unknown | 26 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Psychology | 22 | 25% |
| Neuroscience | 15 | 17% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 6% |
| Linguistics | 3 | 3% |
| Unspecified | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 7 | 8% |
| Unknown | 32 | 37% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 August 2018.
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