Concurrent TMS-fMRI reveals dynamic interhemispheric influences of the right parietal cortex during exogenously cued visuospatial attention

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 991-1000

  Heinen, Klaartje ^a   Ruff, Christian C ^a,b   Bjoertomt, Otto ^a,c   Schenkluhn, Bertram ^d   Bestmann, Sven ^c   Blankenburg, Felix ^a,e   Driver, Jon ^a   Chambers, Christopher D ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angular gyrus; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Humans; Reorienting; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOTOPIC CORTEX; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; SPACE PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79952366692     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07580.x     Document Type: Article

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