Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the human frontal eye field facilitates visual awareness

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3121-3126

  Grosbras, Marie Hélène ^a   Paus, Tomáš ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action perception integration; Attention; Frontal eye field; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MASKING;

ADULT; AWARENESS; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EYE; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0346249759     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2003.03055.x     Document Type: Article

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