Monday, October 13, 2014

Ceiling Effects Prevent Further Improvement of Transcranial Stimulation in Skilled Musicians

This probably doesn't affect us since we probably are no longer considered skilled in fine motor control. But ask your doctor if tDCS could degrade your skills.
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/34/41/13834.short

http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2014/10/improvement-of-performance-by.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mindblog+%28MindBlog%29
Furuya et al. make the interesting observation that the fine motor hand performance of musically untrained people is improved by transcranial direction current stimulation (tDCS) over the primary motor cortices, but the performance of skilled pianists can be degraded.

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