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Suppressing versus releasing a habit: frequency-dependent effects of prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation

Knoch, D. and Brugger, P. and Regard, M.. (2005) Suppressing versus releasing a habit: frequency-dependent effects of prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation. Cerebral Cortex, 15 (7). pp. 885-887.

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Abstract

When subjects are required to generate a random sequence of numbers they typically produce too many forward and backward 'counts' (e.g. 5-6, 4-3). This counting bias is interpreted as the consequence of an interference by overlearned tendencies to arrange numbers according to their natural order. Inhibition of such well-learned routines is known to rely on frontal lobe functioning. We examined differential effects of slow (1 Hz) and fast (10 Hz) repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over the left or right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) on random number generation (RNG) performance. Eighteen healthy men performed an RNG task. Those subjects stimulated over the left DLPFC showed a frequency-dependent rTMS effect: counting bias was significantly reduced after the 1 Hz stimulation compared with baseline, but significantly exaggerated after the 10 Hz stimulation compared with 1 Hz stimulation. In contrast, the sequences of the subjects stimulated over the right DLPFC showed the well-known excess of counting in all conditions (i.e. baseline, 1 Hz and 10 Hz). These findings confirm the functional importance of specifically the left DLPFC in sequential response production and show, for the first time, that rTMS affects cognitive processing in a frequency-dependent manner.
Faculties and Departments:07 Faculty of Psychology > Departement Psychologie > Ehemalige Einheiten Psychologie > Social and Affective Neuroscience (Knoch)
UniBasel Contributors:Knoch, Daria
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Oxford University Press
ISSN:1047-3211
e-ISSN:1460-2199
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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