Alpha Oscillations Are Causally Linked to Inhibitory Abilities in Ageing

By Giulia Borghini, Michela Candini, Cristina Filannino, M. Hussain, V. Walsh, Vincenzo Romei, N. Zokaei, M. Cappelletti. 2018

Subfields: Aging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Causal Evidence for a Role of Theta and Alpha Oscillations in the Control of Working Memory (2020, methodology): “Finally, we found that the hypothesized pattern of brain-behavior correlations was greater for conditions with versus without task-driven oscillations in the targeted regions (z[18] = 2.”
No effects of the theta-frequency transcranial electrical stimulation for recall, attention control, and relation integration in working memory (2024, background): “The alpha band was targeted by tACS less frequently, and such studies reported its negligible eﬀects on WM performance (e.g., Feurra et al., 2016; Borghini et al., 2018; Soutschek et al., 2022; Chen et al., 2023 ).”
Alpha oscillatory activity is causally linked to working memory retention (2023, methodology): “, rather than continuously performed during the whole process of each trial, as has been performed in previous WM-related tACS studies [48,71]).”
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).”
Parietal Alpha Oscillatory Peak Frequency Mediates the Effect of Practice on Visuospatial Working Memory Performance (2022, background): “This is not surprising, considering that oscillatory activity in the alpha band has been linked to perceptual processing [57,101–104] and the efficiency by which distracting stimuli are dealt with [33,55,105].”
Modulating Human Memory via Entrainment of Brain Oscillations. (2019, background): “Similar evidence comes from a tACS study showing that WM performance improves in elderly subjects during parietal 10 Hz stimulation [56].”