Fronto-parietal areas necessary for a multisensory representation of peripersonal space in humans: An rTMS study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2956-2967

  Serino, Andrea ^a,b   Canzoneri, Elisa ^b   Avenanti, Alessio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Centro di Studi e Ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTOPARIETAL AREA; GROUP DYNAMICS; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; MENTAL TASK; MULTISENSORY REPRESENTATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERIPERSONAL SPACE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VENTRAL PREMOTOR CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860412723     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00006     Document Type: Article

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