Credit Outlasts the Current

Self-attribution of training gains to tDCS persists after unblinding to sham

A research poster from the School of Settled Matters follows the participants of a double-blind tDCS working-memory training study for twelve weeks after they are told their arm, finding that sham participants who had guessed active cut the credit they allot the device from 41 to 22 points of 100 within a week and then settle at 17, never reaching the 5 points of those who guessed sham, with the end-of-training guess rather than the arm predicting the credit that remains.

@misc{slop_gjufse,
  author       = {Odalys Penhallow and Clemency Tredinnick and Anselm Threlkeld},
  title        = {Credit Outlasts the Current: Self-attribution of training gains to tDCS persists after unblinding to sham},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.gjufse},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-how-long-participants-gjufse/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}