ArticleScience advances2022
Supramodality of neural entrainment: Rhythmic visual stimulation causally enhances auditory working memory performance.
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- Embracing Internal States: A Review of Optimization of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Treating Depression.Neuroscience bulletin · 2025Review
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- Auditory working memory mechanisms mediating the relationship between musicianship and auditory stream segregation.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Cross-modal impact of auditory experience on visual cortical entrainment in children who are hard-of-hearing.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
The frontoparietal network is involved in multiple tasks, such as visual mental rotation, working memory, or arithmetic. Whether those different cognitive processes are supported by the same supramodal network or distinct, but overlapping, functional systems is unresolved. We investigate whether frontoparietal activity can be selectively entrained by rhythmic sensory stimulations (visual rotation) and whether this entrainment can causally modulate task performance in another modality (auditory working memory). We show that rhythmic visual presentations of rotating shapes, known to activate the dorsal pathway, increase frontoparietal connectivity at stimulation frequency as measured with MEG/EEG. We then show that frontoparietal theta oscillations predict auditory working memory performance. Last, we demonstrate that theta rhythmic visual stimulation applied during auditory memory causally enhances performance, and both the rotating properties of the stimulus and its flickering frequency drive the effect. This study provides causal evidence of the supramodal role of the frontoparietal network in human cognition.
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