The role of the cerebellum in 'real' and 'imaginary' line bisection explored with 1-Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1724-1732

  Oliver, Rupert ^a   Opavsky, Robert ^b,c   Vyslouzil, Marek ^b   Greenwood, Richard ^d   Rothwell, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Sternberk Hospital   (Czech Republic)

^d NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Number line; Plasticity; Spatial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EYE POSITION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NECK MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; CEREBELLUM; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955528662     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07664.x     Document Type: Article

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