Enhancing multisensory spatial orienting by brain polarization of the parietal cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1800-1806

  Bolognini, Nadia ^a   Olgiati, Elena ^a   Rossetti, Angela ^a   Maravita, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Auditory; Crossmodal; Parietal cortex; Redundant signal effect; TDCS; Visual

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; DIRECT CURRENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UPREGULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BRAIN; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952656108     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07211.x     Document Type: Article

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