The role of the parietal lobe in visual extinction studied with transcranial magnetic stimulation

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1946-1955

  Battelli, Lorella ^a,b,f   Alvarez, George A ^b,c   Carlson, Thomas ^b,d   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a,e  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349242381     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.21149     Document Type: Article

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