Contributions to the chapters

The contributions below were specified according to the CRediT system (Contributor Roles Taxonomy; https://www.casrai.org/credit.html; Brand, Allen, Altman, Hlava, & Scott, 2015).

Chapter 2, published as:

Reteig, L. C., Talsma, L.J., van Schouwenburg, M. R., & Slagter, H. A. (2017). Transcranial Electrical Stimulation as a Tool to Enhance Attention. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 1, 10–25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41465-017-0010-y

  • L.C. Reteig: Conceptualization, Data curation, Project Administration, Resources, Writing - original draft.
  • L.J. Talsma: Writing - review & editing.
  • M.R. van Schouwenburg: Writing - review & editing.
  • H.A. Slagter: Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding Acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing - review & editing.

I also thank Marlies Vissers and three anonymous reviewers for providing useful feedback on the pre-publication manuscript.

Chapter 3, published as:

Reteig, L. C., Knapen, T., Roelofs, F. J. F. W., Ridderinkhof, K. R., & Slagter, H. A. (2018). No evidence that frontal eye field tDCS affects latency or accuracy of prosaccades. Frontiers in Neuroscience 12:617. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00617

  • L.C. Reteig: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft.
  • T. Knapen: Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing - review & editing.
  • F.J.F.W. Roelofs: Data curation, Investigation, Validation.
  • K.R. Ridderinkhof: Supervision, Writing - review & editing.
  • H.A. Slagter: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing - review & editing.

I also thank Monja Hoven and Floortje Bouwkamp for their assistance in piloting and data collection, and Thiago Costa and David Fischer for reviewing the pre-publication manuscript. The following colleagues graciously shared their MRI data for neuronavigation purposes: Daan van Es, Anouk van Loon, Poppy Watson, Suzanne Oosterwijk, Yaïr Pinto, and Henk Cremers.

Chapter 4, in preparation as:

Reteig, L. C., Newman, L. A., Ridderinkhof, K. R., & Slagter, H. A. (n.d.). Effects of tDCS on the attentional blink revisited: A statistical evaluation of a replication attempt.

Chapter 5, in preparation as:

Reteig, L. C., Newman, L. A., Ridderinkhof, K. R., & Slagter, H. A. (n.d.). Spontaneous eye blink rate does not predict attentional blink size, nor the effects of tDCS on attentional blink size.

  • L.C. Reteig: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing.
  • L.A. Newman: Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing - review & editing.
  • K.R. Ridderinkhof: Supervision, Writing - review & editing.
  • H.A. Slagter: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing - review & editing.

I also thank Raquel London for sharing all her experience and materials, as well as Daphne Box and Esther van der Giessen for their assistance in data collection.

Chapter 6, published as:

Reteig, L. C., van den Brink, R. L., Prinssen, S., Cohen, M. X., & Slagter, H. A. (2019). Sustaining attention for a prolonged period of time increases temporal variability in cortical responses. Cortex, 117, 16–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.02.016

  • L.C. Reteig: Methodology, Software, Formal analysis, Data curation, Writing - Original draft, Visualization.
  • R.L. van den Brink: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Investigation, Data Curation, Writing - Review & Editing, Project Administration.
  • S. Prinssen: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Investigation, Data Curation, Writing - Review & Editing, Project Administration.
  • M.X. Cohen: Software, Resources.
  • H.A. Slagter: Conceptualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - Review & Editing, Supervision, Project Administration, Funding Acquisition.

I also thank Katherine MacLean for sharing the task code and stimuli used in MacLean et al. (2009) with us, Jonathan Smallwood and one anonymous reviewer for feedback on the pre-publication manuscript, as well as Hilde Huizenga, Raoul Grasman and Robert Zwitser for advice on the multilevel model.