Coming unbound: Disrupting automatic integration of synesthetic color and graphemes by transcranial magnetic stimulation of the right parietal lobe

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1570-1576

  Esterman, Michael ^a,b   Verstynen, Timothy ^a   Ivry, Richard B ^a   Robertson, Lynn C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; AUTOANALYSIS; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CASE REPORT; COLOR VISION; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOKED RESPONSE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTEGRATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SENSATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33749429602     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.9.1570     Document Type: Article

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