Visual awareness suppression by pre-stimulus brain stimulation; a neural effect

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 616-624

  Jacobs, Christianne ^a   Goebel, Rainer ^a   Sack, Alexander T ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Early visual cortex; EoG; TMS; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL AWARENESS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054124567     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.07.090     Document Type: Article

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