Single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation over the frontal eye field can facilitate and inhibit saccade triggering

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2240-2244

  Nyffeler, Thomas ^a   Bucher, Oliver ^a   Pflugshaupt, Tobias ^a   Von Wartburg, Roman ^a   Wurtz, Pascal ^a   Hess, Christian W ^a   Müri, René M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

FEF; Humans; Saccades; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 4944240155     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03667.x     Document Type: Article

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