rTMS over the intraparietal sulcus disrupts numerosity processing

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 631-642

  Cappelletti, Marinella ^a,b   Barth, Hilary ^c   Fregni, Felipe ^a   Spelke, Elizabeth S ^c   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance effect; Numerical cognition; Numerosity; Parietal lobe; rTMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYMBOLISM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 34249068981     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0820-0     Document Type: Article

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