TMS to the lateral occipital cortex disrupts object processing but facilitates scene processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4174-4184

  Mullin, Caitlin R ^a   Steeves, Jennifer K E ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATERAL OCCIPITAL CORTEX; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT PROCESSING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCENE PROCESSING; STIMULATION ONSET ASYNCHRONY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 80055121792     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00095     Document Type: Article

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