The Ferrier Lecture 2004: What can transcranial magnetic stimulation tell us about how the brain works?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1458, 2005, Pages 1185-1205

  Cowey, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Localization of function; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Visual awareness; Visual cognition

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; BRAIN; COGNITION;

EID: 31344470394     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1658     Document Type: Conference Paper

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