On the Role of Prestimulus Alpha Rhythms over Occipito-Parietal Areas in Visual Input Regulation: Correlation or Causation?

By Vincenzo Romei, Joachim Gross, Gregor Thut. Journal of Neuroscience, 2010

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EEG and MEG: relevance to neuroscience. (2013, neutral): “…TMS applied to the occipital or parietal cortex at the a frequency (10 Hz) (but not at 5 or 20 Hz), prior to the presentation of lateralized visual stimuli, was shown to impair visual detection contralateral to the stimulated side, while enhancing detection ipsilaterally (Romei et al., 2010, 2012).”
Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Enhances Individual Alpha Activity in Human EEG (2010, background): “The causal nature of a close relationship between EEG alpha oscillations and human behavior has been pointed out by demonstrating that artificially enhanced alpha power by repetitive trancranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) [9,10] or neurofeedback training [11,12] can improve cognitive task performan”
Enhancement of human cognitive performance using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) (2013, background): “Performance enhancements have been found to be frequency-specific (e.g., 10Hz but not 5 or 20Hz in Romei et al., 2010; IAF Neuroimage.”
Entrainment of brain oscillations by transcranial alternating current stimulation. (2014, neutral): “In line with the above, previous rTMS experiments on exogenous alpha enhancement described either facilitation [27] or impairment [28] of task performance in different cognitive paradigms.”
Combining non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation with neuroimaging and electrophysiology: Current approaches and future perspectives (2016, positive): “Indeed there is evidence suggesting that 10 Hz bursts may actually entrain alpha oscillations (Romei et al., 2010; Thut et al., 2011a, 2011b).”
The Role of Alpha-Band Brain Oscillations as a Sensory Suppression Mechanism during Selective Attention (2011, methodology): “…July 2011 | Volume 2 | Article 154 | 7 In the most direct test of the potentially causal role of alpha band activity in attentional suppression, Romei et al. (2010) again used TMS, although in this case they sought to externally drive rhythmic neural activity and observe the effects that such…”
Causal Evidence for the Role of Neuronal Oscillations in Top-Down and Bottom-Up Attention (2019, background): “Multiple studies have found that alpha frequency TMS ipsilateral to the focus of visual attention improves target detection (Romei et al., 2010; Sauseng et al., 2009).”
Prioritizing flexible working memory representations through retrospective attentional strengthening (2023, unknown): “However, previous studies applying alpha-related noninvasive brain stimulation provided some convincing evidence for the causal link between alpha activity and visuospatial attention (Borghini et al., 2018; Kasten et al., 2020; Kemmerer et al., 2022a, 2022b; Romei et al., 2010).”