Conveners
Advanced Applications of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and EEG in Experimental Psychology: JUNIOR SYMPOSIUM
- Luca Tarasi
The combination of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS) and electroencephalography (EEG) provides a powerful and precise method to explore the dynamic neural processes underpinning human cognition. Here, we emphasize transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) as a leading NIBS modality integrated with EEG to offer direct causal insights into how cognitive functions emerge and evolve over time....
Several TMS investigations have demonstrated that action observation (AO) exerts a facilitatory effect on corticospinal excitability (CSE). In a large-scale study involving over 100 participants, we observed that AO not only increased MEP amplitude but also significantly reduced its variability. These findings suggest that the baseline variability in MEPs amplitude (when motor rhythms are...
Introduction
According to the predictive coding framework, perception results from integrating sensory inputs with prior knowledge. Past experience constitutes a fundamental source of priors by enabling the extraction of statistical regularities from the environment, a process known as statistical learning. A major challenge is to understand how learned statistics are implemented within...
Introduction
Confidence—the capacity to assess the correctness of one’s own decisions—is a central component of metacognitive evaluation. While perceptual choices are increasingly understood to be shaped by prior expectations, the extent to which these expectations also bias confidence judgments remains largely unknown. Moreover, the oscillatory mechanisms supporting this integration have yet...
