Effects of TMS over premotor and superior temporal cortices on biological motion perception

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 896-904

  van Kemenade, Bianca Michelle ^a,b   Muggleton, Neil ^a,c,d   Walsh, Vincent ^a   Saygin, Ayse Pinar ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857550274     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00194     Document Type: Article

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