The mental number line modulates visual cortical excitability

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 462, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 253-256

  Cattaneo, Zaira ^a,b   Silvanto, Juha ^b   Battelli, Lorella ^b,c   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mental number line; Phosphenes; TMS; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PHOSPHENES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 67849115813     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.07.027     Document Type: Article

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