{"id":31966,"date":"2016-11-16T14:31:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T22:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/test-of-transcranial-direct-current-stimulation-tdcs-of-the-brain-shows-improved-multitasking-performance"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:19:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:19:42","slug":"test-of-transcranial-direct-current-stimulation-tdcs-of-the-brain-shows-improved-multitasking-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/test-of-transcranial-direct-current-stimulation-tdcs-of-the-brain-shows-improved-multitasking-performance","title":{"rendered":"Test of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the brain shows improved multitasking performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/test-of-transcranial-direct-current-stimulation-tdcs-of-the-brain-shows-improved-multitasking-performance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Placement of five anode electrodes (left) over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the cathode (right) over the right shoulder (to avoid spurious cognitive effects from cortical excitability) (credit: Justin Nelson et al.\/ Front. Hum. Neurosci.) <\/p>\n<p>In an experiment at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, researchers have found that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transcranial_direct-current_stimulation\" target=\"_blank\">transcranial direct-current stimulation<\/a> (tDCS) of the brain can improve people\u2019s multitasking skills and help avoid the drop in performance that comes with information overload.<\/p>\n<p>The study was reported in a pre-publication paper in the open-access journal <em>Frontiers of Human Neuroscience<\/em>. It was motivated by the observation that various Air Force operations such as remotely piloted and manned aircraft operations require a human operator to monitor and respond to multiple events simultaneously over a long period of time. \u201cWith the monotonous nature of these tasks, the operator\u2019s performance may decline shortly after their work shift commences,\u201d according to the researchers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/transcranial-direct-current-stimulation-tdcs-improves-multitasking\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/transcranial-direct-current-stimul...ltitasking<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Placement of five anode electrodes (left) over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the cathode (right) over the right shoulder (to avoid spurious cognitive effects from cortical excitability) (credit: Justin Nelson et al.\/ Front. Hum. Neurosci.) In an experiment at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, researchers have found that transcranial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49589,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31966\/revisions\/49589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}