Transcranial magnetic stimulation disrupts the perception and embodiment of facial expressions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 8929-8933

  Pitcher, David ^a   Garrido, Lúcia ^a   Walsh, Vincent ^a   Duchaine, Bradley C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Emotion; Face perception; Occipital face area; Somatosensory cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; METHODOLOGY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 54049126232     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1450-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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