Transcranial direct current stimulation over Broca's region improves phonemic and semantic fluency in healthy individuals

▶Fluency tasks are typically used in clinical assessment of language. ▶tDCS can be proficiently used to modulate cognitive functions. ▶Participants performed a semantic and a phonemic fluency task following anodal tDCS over the Broca's region. ▶Participants produced more words following real compared to sham anodal tDCS in both fluency tasks. ▶Our data confirm the efficacy of tDCS in transiently improving language functions.