Are recognition deficits following occipital lobe TMS explained by raised detection thresholds?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1161-1166

  Kammer, Thomas ^a   Nusseck, Hans Günther ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast threshold; Signal to noise ratio; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Visual object recognition; Visual suppression; Weber contrast

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOSPHENES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0031795387     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(98)00003-7     Document Type: Article

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