Bilateral Theta-Burst TMS to Influence Global Gestalt Perception

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Ritzinger, Bernd ^a   Huberle, Elisabeth ^a,b   Karnath, Hans Otto ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Luzerner Kantonsspital   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GLOBAL GESTALT PERCEPTION; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RATING SCALE; REACTION TIME; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; GESTALT THEORY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; STROKE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84868153043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047820     Document Type: Article

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