Effects of parietal TMS on somatosensory judgments challenge interhemispheric rivalry accounts

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3470-3481

  Eshel, Neir ^a,b   Ruff, Christian C ^a,c,d   Spitzer, Bernhard ^e   Blankenburg, Felix ^a,c,e   Driver, Jon ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Rivalry; Tactile perception; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957296401     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.07.031     Document Type: Article

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