Anodal tDCS over Primary Motor Cortex Provides No Advantage to Learning Motor Sequences via Observation

Figure 2

Experimental procedure. The experiment involved pretest, four 20-minute-long training sessions coupled with tDCS, posttest, and retention test. In the pre-, post-, and retention tests, participants executed eight keypress sequences (four of them to be trained, the other four untrained) with the left (nondominant) hand. In the training sessions, participants watched videos of a model’s left hand executing four of the eight sequences. During training, participants received either sham or active (1 mA) 20-minute stimulation over the right motor cortex (35 cm² large area centred on the left-hand motor area M1).