Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the occipital pole interferes with verbal processing in blind subjects

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1266-1270

  Amedi, Amir ^a,d   Floel, Agnes ^b,c   Knecht, Stefan ^c   Zohary, Ehud ^a   Cohen, Leonardo G ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH DISORDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL LEARNING; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 7044274138     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1328     Document Type: Article

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