Visual cortex excitability increases during visual mental imagery - A TMS study in healthy human subjects

Brain Research

Volumn 938, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 92-97

  Sparing, Roland ^a,b   Mottaghy, Felix M ^a   Ganis, Giorgio ^c   Thompson, William L ^c   Töpper, Rudolf ^b   Kosslyn, Stephen M ^c   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Phosphene threshold; Primary visual cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Visual mental imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETINA IMAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MAGNETICS; MALE; PHOSPHENES; REFERENCE VALUES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0037205178     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)02478-2     Document Type: Article

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