Theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation to the prefrontal cortex impairs metacognitive visual awareness

Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 165-175

  Rounis, Elisabeth ^a   Maniscalco, Brian ^b   Rothwell, John C ^a   Passingham, Richard E ^a,c   Lau, Hakwan ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Metacognitive; Prefrontal cortex; Stimulus judgments; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77956699796     PISSN: 17588928     EISSN: 17588936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17588921003632529     Document Type: Article

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