Disruption of the prefrontal cortex function by rTMS produces a category-specific enhancement of the reaction times during visual object identification

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2725-2731

  Viggiano, Maria Pia ^a   Giovannelli, Fabio ^b   Borgheresi, Alessandra ^b   Feurra, Matteo ^a   Berardi, Nicoletta ^a,c   Pizzorusso, Tommaso ^a,c   Zaccara, Gaetano ^b   Cincotta, Massimo ^b  

^a Dipartimento di Psicologia   (Italy)

^b SANTA MARIA ANNUNZIATA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Categorization; Decision making; Dorso lateral prefrontal cortex; rTMS; Visual object recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SENSORY SYSTEM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION;

EID: 47349104679     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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