The neural signature of phosphene perception

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1408-1417

  Taylor, Paul C J ^a,b   Walsh, Vincent ^b,c   Eimer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Awareness; Consciousness; Electroencephalography; Evoked potentials; Phosphenes; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Visual cortex; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; PHOSPHENES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77956271131     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20941     Document Type: Article

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