The seven-session program consisted in a baseline test (session 1), once a week training (sessions 2 6), and a final test (session 7).
At the in-person baseline session and prior to randomization, the study will again be described to participants and the formal informed consent process will take place.
Animals were first included in a baseline recording session 7 10 days after surgery to ensure that stable baseline recordings could be made for at least 4 h.
Conversely, left parietal rTMS disrupted the negative correlation between rightward bias and semantic distance showed in the baseline session (r = −.066; p = .64).64
The MEPs evoked during both PRE and POST baselines were averaged and used to compute an index of MEP modulation (MEPi), calculated as the ratio between the averaged MEPs recorded in each experimental condition and the averaged MEPs recorded in the baseline session, multiplied by 100.
An example of a typical baseline session set is presented in Fig. 1D, E. There was an overall significant decrease (F2,22 = 7.35, *P < 0.005) in the number of contacts across the three baseline testing sessions for this group of animals (N = 12).
In the sham (baseline) session the coil was placed perpendicular to the scalp at a 45° angle from the mid-sagittal line.
