St. Petersburg State University

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Behavior

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) of Wernicke's and Broca's Areas in Studies of Language Learning and Word Acquisition

Evgeny Blagovechtchenski¹, Daria Gnedykh¹, Diana Kurmakaeva¹, Nadezhda Mkrtychian¹, Svetlana Kostromina¹, 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.