Transcranial magnetic stimulation in the visual system. I. The psychophysics of visual suppression

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 118-128

  Kammer, Thomas ^a,b   Puls, Klaas ^b   Strasburger, Hans ^c   Hill, N Jeremy ^b   Wichmann, Felix A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Occipital cortex; Psychometric function; Slope; Threshold modulation; Visual masking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOSPHENES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 11244264035     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-1991-1     Document Type: Article

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