Occipital transcranial magnetic stimulation has an activity-dependent suppressive effect

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 36, 2012, Pages 12361-12365

  Perini, Francesca ^a   Cattaneo, Luigi ^a   Carrasco, Marisa ^b   Schwarzbach, Jens V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84865767566     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5864-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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