Human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is involved in visual search for conjunctions but not features: A theta TMS study

Cortex

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1085-1090

  Kalla, Roger ^a   Muggleton, Neil G ^a   Cowey, Alan ^b   Walsh, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DLPFC; Theta stimulation; TMS; V5; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCORING SYSTEM; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 68049136131     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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