Auditory enhancement of visual phosphene perception: The effect of temporal and spatial factors and of stimulus intensity

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 477, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 109-114

  Bolognini, Nadia ^a   Senna, Irene ^a   Maravita, Angelo ^a   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^b   Merabet, Lotfi B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Multisensory; Phosphenes; Subthreshold; TMS; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHOSPHENES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953357317     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.04.044     Document Type: Article

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