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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 2.
Published in final edited form as: Atten Percept Psychophys. 2017 Jan;79(1):3–23. doi: 10.3758/s13414-016-1224-2

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Illustration of the nature of direct current versus alternating current. A) Direct current involves passing a constant current through a circuit. B) Alternating current oscillates between negative and positive voltage. A third type of transcranial stimulation is noise stimulation, in which the voltage steps randomly across time.