The role of prefrontal cortex in visuo-spatial planning: A repetitive TMS study

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 411-415

  Basso, Demis ^a   Lotze, Martin ^b   Vitale, Lavinia ^c   Ferreri, Florinda ^d   Bisiacchi, Patrizia ^e   Belardinelli, Marta Olivetti ^a,c   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^d,f   Birbaumer, Niels ^b  

^a ECONA   (Italy)

^b Institut für Medizinische Psychologie und Verhaltensneurobiologie   (Germany)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^f IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INNER EAR; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PLANNING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EAR, INNER; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PILOT PROJECTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646883930     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0457-z     Document Type: Article

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