Maybe causal, but still cautious: Reply to “Cautious or causal? Key implicit sequence learning paradigms should not be overlooked when assessing the role of DLPFC (Commentary on Prutean et al.)”
In our recent work (Prutean et al., 2021), we presented the existing evidence on the causal role of DLPFC top-down control on the acquisition and automatic expression of implicit sequence learning. Contrary to our expectations, we concluded that up to date there is not sufficient evidence supporting...
| Authors: | , , , , , |
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC) |
| Repository: | Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dnet:minerva_____::fc4f9b0435705ff31b4027c7fd714df4 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10347/47531 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Implicit sequence learning DLPFC stimulation 6106 Psicología experimental |
| Summary: | In our recent work (Prutean et al., 2021), we presented the existing evidence on the causal role of DLPFC top-down control on the acquisition and automatic expression of implicit sequence learning. Contrary to our expectations, we concluded that up to date there is not sufficient evidence supporting a causal role of DLPFC in modulating either the acquisition or the expression of sequence learning. Vekony et al. (2022) published a recent commentary which points toward the procedural differences between the paradigms in which DLPFC stimulation produced an effect on sequence learning (i.e., ASRT in Ambrus et al., 2020; Janacsek et al., 2015) and those which actually provided evidence for the absence of such effect (i.e., SRT in Prutean et al., 2021) and they advanced that the DLPFC contribution to sequence learning might be task-dependent, since it was observed just in the ASRT paradigm, and not, for instance, in the SRT paradigm. We agree that there are methodological characteristics that differentiate the two paradigms, and point to other differences, as well as to the need of further studies which compare in a within-subjects design the ASRT and the SRT tasks with the same frequency information, stimulation and timing procedure. |
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