Facilitation of bottom-up feature detection following rTMS-interference of the right parietal cortex

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1003-1010

  Oliveri, Massimiliano ^a,d   Zhaoping, Li ^b   Mangano, Giuseppa Renata ^a,e   Turriziani, Patrizia ^a   Smirni, Daniela ^a   Cipolotti, Lisa ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Right parietal cortex; rTMS; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 76749118034     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.11.024     Document Type: Article

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