Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) selectively modulates semantic information during reading.

The left angular gyrus has long been implicated in semantic processing. Here we tested whether or not transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the left angular gyrus modulated reading performance. Adult readers (N = 77) (1) read aloud words that varied in degree of imageability, a semantic word property known to activate the angular gyrus, and (2) completed an N-back task (control task).

Disentangling Genuine Semantic Stroop Effects in Reading from Contingency Effects: On the Need for Two Neutral Baselines.

The automaticity of reading is often explored through the Stroop effect, whereby color-naming is affected by color words. Color associates (e.g.