Statement of Retraction: London, R. E. and Slagter, H. A. Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation over Left Dorsolateral pFC on the Attentional Blink Depend on Individual Baseline Performance.

Abstract

By the request of the authors, the following research article will be retracted from the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience:London, R. E., & Slagter, H. A. (2015). “Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation over left dorsolateral pFC on the attentional blink depend on individual baseline performance” published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(12), 2382–2393. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00867While attempting to replicate and extend the original work, an error was discovered in the routine that implemented the analysis used to assess whether the relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable is driven by regression to the mean (Mrytek & Foerster, 1986). After the error was corrected and the analysis was rerun, it was found that one of the main results—an influence of baseline level of performance on anodal tDCS-induced change in the attentional blink, presented in Figure 3—no longer held. Given that this finding was also expressed in the title of the article, the authors requested the article to be retracted. The complete set of results from this study, now with the corrected analysis, will be published as London R. E., & Slagter, H. A. “No effect of transcranial direct current stimulation over left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on temporal attention” in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01679.