The role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in episodic encoding of faces: An interference study by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 118-125

  Feurra, Matteo ^a,b   Fuggetta, Giorgio ^a,c   Rossi, Simone ^d   Walsh, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Context; Episodic encoding; Left IFG; Left OFA; Memory; Prefrontal cortex; Recognition; RTMS; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 77955309084     PISSN: 17588928     EISSN: 17588936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17588921003660736     Document Type: Article

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