Dexterity with numbers: rTMS over left angular gyrus disrupts finger gnosis and number processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1609-1624

  Rusconi, Elena ^a   Walsh, Vincent ^a,b   Butterworth, Brian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acalculia; Bimanual tasks; Finger gnosis; Gerstmann's syndrome; Motor attention; rTMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGNOSIA; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PARITY; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGNOSIA; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 21844470234     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.01.009     Document Type: Article

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