Figuring out how to enhance a person's mental capabilities has been of considerable interest to psychology and neuroscience researchers like me for decades.
We set out to perform a new meta-analysis of studies using tACS to change mental function. To our knowledge, this work is the
yet on this topic, consisting of over 100 published studies with a combined total of more than 2,800 human participants.consistent and immediate improvementWhen we examined specific cognitive functions, such as memory and attention, we observed that tACS produced the strongest improvements in, or the ability to adapt in the face of new, surprising or conflicting information.
A proportional representation of the brain regions targeted by tACS across the 304 effects in the 102 published studies of the meta-analysis. The left panel shows single-region brain targets, and the right panel describes studies targeting at least two brain regions. (
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