Temporal aspects of visual search studied by transcranial magnetic stimulation

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1121-1131

  Ashbridge, Elisabeth ^a   Walsh, Vincent ^a   Cowey, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Parietal cortex; TMS; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

HUMANS; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030807139     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00003-1     Document Type: Article

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