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T1 Transcranial direct current stimulacion over the right anterior temporal lobe does not modulate false recognition
A1 Alonso Rodríguez, María Ángeles
A1 Díez Álamo, Antonio M.
A1 Gómez Ariza, Carlos J.
A1 Díez Villoria, Emiliano
A1 Fernández Ramos, Ángel
K1 false memory
K1 DRM paradigm
K1 right anterior temporal lobe
K1 semantic memory
K1 brain stimulation
AB Non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the left anterior temporallobe (ATL) has been shown to cause a reduction in the rate of false memories withsemantically related words. Such a reduction seems to be specific to false memoriesinduced by the study of associative lists, but is not observed when the studied listsare categorical in nature. These findings are interpreted as evidence that the left ATLfunctions as an integration hub that is crucial for the binding of semantic information intocoherent representations of concepts. In order to investigate whether the right ATL mightalso contribute to semantic integration in the processing of verbal associative material, afollow-up tDCS study was conducted with the stimulation at study lateralized on the rightATL. A sample of 75 undergraduate students participated in an experiment in which theystudied 8 associative lists and 8 categorical lists. One third of the participants studied alltheir word lists under anodal stimulation, another third studied under cathodal stimulationand the other third under sham stimulation. Results showed that stimulation of the rightATL by tDCS does not modulate false recognition for either association-related criticalwords or category-related critical words. These results provide preliminary support toviews positing asymmetric connectivity between the anterior temporal lobes and thesemantic representational network, and provide evidence for understanding
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