Heleen A. Slagter

TL;DR: Some of the differences in study design that may have contributed to this discrepancy in findings are highlighted and more generally may determine the effectiveness of tACS.

TL;DR: Across task conditions, there is no convincing evidence for the notion that conscious access is affected by rapid top-down selection-related modulations of the strength of early sensory representations induced by the preceding visual event, and these results cannot easily be explained by existing accounts of how attentional selection shapes conscious access under rapidly changing input conditions.

TL;DR: It is shown that estimated strength of white-matter connections between the first relay station in the auditory processing stream, the cochlear nucleus, the auditory thalamus, and primary auditory cortex predicted one’s ability to combine auditory and visual information in a visual search task.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined dynamic changes in the representation of targets and distractors as a function of conscious access and the task relevance (target or distractor) of the preceding item in the RSVP stream.

TL;DR: Whether attention can be improved with electrical stimulation of the brain, in the form of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), and the opposite effect: decreases in attention, when attention has to be sustained for a long time are investigated.