Functional inhibition of the human middle temporal cortex affects non-visual motion perception: A repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation study during tactile speed discrimination

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 236, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 138-144

  Ricciardi, Emiliano ^a   Basso, Demis ^a,b,c   Sani, Lorenzo ^a   Bonino, Daniela ^a,c   Vecchi, Tomaso ^c   Pietrini, Pietro ^a,d   Miniussi, Carlo ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^f IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

Author keywords

hMT+; Supramodality; Tactile motion; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VELOCITY;

HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOUCH PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79951650645     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ebm.2010.010230     Document Type: Article

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