| Lupyan et al. (2012) |
Healthy |
20 (+20 for contr) |
tDCS |
F7 |
Contralateral mastoid |
20 min. of 1.5 mA |
Online |
Cathodal tDCS over left IFG leads to poorer semantic categorisation |
Control (no details) |
| Alexander et al. (2012) |
Healthy |
13 |
tDCS |
Fc4 |
Contralateral frontopolar cortex |
10 min. of 1 mA |
Offline |
Cathodal (but not anodal) tDCS over right IFG improves prosody comprehension |
Sham (same subjects) |
| Sehm et al. (2013) |
Healthy |
12 (+12 for sham; +12 for contr.) |
tDCS |
Det. by MRI |
Contralateral supraorbital area |
3 × 20 min. of 1 mA |
Online |
Anodal tDCS over left IFG (but not over left IPC) improves perceptual learning of degraded words |
Sham, control location |
| Wang et al. (2013) |
Aphasia |
1 |
tDCS |
Cp5/Fc3 (separate sessions) |
Contralateral shoulder |
10 × 20 min. of 1.2 mA |
Offline |
Anodal tDCS over left STG and left IFG improves auditory word identification after five sessions (no further improvement after 10 sessions) |
Sham (same subject) |
| Pinchuk et al. (2015) |
Children with disorders of psych. develop. |
26 (+10 for no stim.) |
tDCS |
Not precisely defined |
Ipsilateral mastoid |
5–9 × 25–35 min. of 0.06–0.09 mA |
Offline |
Anodal tDCS over left IFG or “left temporo-parieto-occipital area” brings laterality index during dichotic listening of children with disorders of speech and language closer to that of healthy children |
No stimulation |
| Schaal et al. (2015)*† |
Congenital amusia |
9 (+8 for no stim.) |
tACS |
Det. by neuro-navigation |
Contralateral supraorbital area |
35 Hz, 1 mA, max. 20 min. |
Online |
35-Hz (but not 90-Hz) tACS over right DLPFC improves pitch memory |
No stimulation, control frequency |
