Combining backward masking and transcranial magnetic stimulation in human observers

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 343, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 171-174

  Kammer, Thomas ^a,c   Scharnowski, Frank ^a   Herzog, Michael H ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrimination threshold; Magnetic stimulation; Shine through effect; Visual cortex; Visual masking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EYE FIXATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037534284     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00376-8     Document Type: Article

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