Accurate and rapid estimation of phosphene thresholds (REPT)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Abrahamyan, Arman ^a   Clifford, Colin W G ^a   Ruzzoli, Manuela ^b   Phillips, Dan ^c   Arabzadeh, Ehsan ^d   Harris, Justin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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

^c The Magstim Company Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACCURATE AND RAPID ESTIMATION OF PHOSPHENE THRESHOLDS; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BRAIN CORTEX; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; METHOD OF CONSTANT STIMULUS; MODIFIED BINARY SEARCH ALGORITHM; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VALIDATION STUDY; VISION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; BAYES THEOREM; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOSPHENES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960674566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022342     Document Type: Article

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