Contrasting early visual cortical activation states causally involved in visual imagery and short-term memory

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1393-1400

  Cattaneo, Zaira ^a   Vecchi, Tomaso ^b   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^c   Silvanto, Juha ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early visual cortex; Imagery; Short term memory; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; V1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350482923     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06911.x     Document Type: Article

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