Fig. 2.

The results of the experiment. (A) The averaged reaction time (RT) and accuracy (%) for the semantic (category judgement) and control (pattern matching) tasks before (PRE) and after (POST) stimulation. White bars represent the PRE sessions and grey bars, the POST sessions. (B) TMS effects in the semantic and control task. TMS effects were computed by subtracting RT in PRE from POST TMS sessions. White bars represent the matched sham stimulation. Light blue coloured bars indicate 1 Hz stimulation and red bars, 20 Hz stimulation. (C) Practice effects. Squares with solid lines indicate semantic task performance, whereas triangles with dotted lines, control task performance. Error bar represents the standard error. * p < 0.05, *** p ≤ 0.001.