On the functional relevance of frontal cortex for passive and voluntarily controlled bistable vision

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2322-2331

  De Graaf, Tom A ^a   De Jong, Maartje C ^b   Goebel, Rainer ^a   Van Ee, Raymond ^b,c,d   Sack, Alexander T ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ambiguous; Attention; Control; Multistable; Perceptual alternation; Reversal; Switching; TMS; Top down; Volition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052765626     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr015     Document Type: Article

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