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Here, we investigated the role of the PPC in multisensory feature integration through experimental manipulation of non-invasive brain stimulation with healthy participants using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). In different sessions, healthy participants received anodal, cathodal, or sham stimulation (2\u00a0mA, 20\u00a0min) over the right PPC while performing an audio-visual <jats:italic>event-file<\/jats:italic> task. The results underscore two interesting observations. Firstly, there was a significant difference in integration effects between features from different modalities in the anodal stimulation compared to sham, suggesting interference of the multisensory integration processes during the brain stimulation. And secondly, after anodal stimulation, the unattended feature became more likely to be integrated with the response feature compared to the other conditions, presumably through an interference of attentional processes. Hence, these findings emphasize the role of the right PPC in multisensory integration. Furthermore, from a methodological perspective, tDCS can be used as an experimental tool by creating a temporary, reversible disruption in cognitive processes in order to explore the mechanisms underlying cognitive functions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1163\/22134808-00002449","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,7,4]],"date-time":"2014-07-04T13:39:17Z","timestamp":1404481157000},"page":"161-172","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["The Role of the Parietal Cortex in Multisensory and Response Integration: Evidence from Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)"],"prefix":"10.1163","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Sharon","family":"Zmigrod","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Psychological Research and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"374","reference":[{"key":"bibr1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1421","DOI":"10.1098\/rstb.1997.0128","article-title":"Multimodal integration for the representation of space in the posterior parietal cortex","volume":"352","author":"Andersen","year":"1997","journal-title":"Phil. 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