Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) of Wernicke's and Broca's Areas in Studies of Language Learning and Word AcquisitionEvgeny Blagovechtchenski 1, Daria Gnedykh 1, Diana Kurmakaeva 1, Nadezhda Mkrtychian 1, Svetlana Kostromina 1, Yury Shtyrov 1,2
1Laboratory of Behavioural Neurodynamics, St. Petersburg State University, 2Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN), Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University
Here, we describe a protocol for using transcranial direct current stimulation for psycho- and neurolinguistic experiments aimed at studying, in a naturalistic yet fully controlled way, the role of cortical areas of the human brain in word learning, and a comprehensive set of behavioral procedures for assessing the outcomes.