Phosphene threshold as a function of contrast of external visual stimuli

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 124-127

  Rauschecker, Andreas M ^a   Bestmann, Sven ^b   Walsh, Vincent ^c   Thilo, Kai V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Excitability; Phosphenes; TMS; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 3142674336     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-1910-5     Document Type: Article

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