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Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Enhance Creative Cognition: Interactions between Task, Polarity, and Stimulation Site

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, May 2017
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Title
Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Enhance Creative Cognition: Interactions between Task, Polarity, and Stimulation Site
Published in
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, May 2017
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00246
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Authors

Adam B. Weinberger, Adam E. Green, Evangelia G. Chrysikou

Abstract

Creative cognition is frequently described as involving two primary processes, idea generation and idea selection. A growing body of research has used transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to examine the neural mechanisms implicated in each of these processes. This literature has yielded a diverse set of findings that vary depending on the location and type (anodal, cathodal, or both) of electrical stimulation employed, as well as the task's reliance on idea generation or idea selection. As a result, understanding the interactions between stimulation site, polarity and task demands is required to evaluate the potential of tDCS to enhance creative performance. Here, we review tDCS designs that have elicited reliable and dissociable enhancements for creative cognition. Cathodal stimulation over the left inferior frontotemporal cortex has been associated with improvements on tasks that rely primarily on idea generation, whereas anodal tDCS over left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and frontopolar cortex has been shown to augment performance on tasks that impose high demands on creative idea selection. These results highlight the functional selectivity of tDCS for different components of creative thinking and confirm the dissociable contributions of left dorsal and inferior lateral frontotemporal cortex for different creativity tasks. We discuss promising avenues for future research that can advance our understanding of the effectiveness of tDCS as a method to enhance creative cognition.

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Country Count As %
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 106 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 15%
Student > Master 16 15%
Researcher 14 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 7%
Student > Bachelor 8 7%
Other 20 19%
Unknown 25 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 31 29%
Neuroscience 20 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 3%
Computer Science 2 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 2%
Other 13 12%
Unknown 36 34%
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