Inferior parietal rTMS affects performance in an addition task

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 774-781

  Göbel, Silke M ^a,c   Rushworth, Matthew F ^a   Walsh, Vincent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acalculia; Addition; Angular gyrus; Inferior parietal lobe; Problem size effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL TASK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33746145579     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70416-7     Document Type: Article

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