The role of the frontal eye fields in oculomotor competition: Image-guided TMS enhances contralateral target selection

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 824-832

  Bosch, S E ^a,b   Neggers, S F W ^c   Van Der Stigchel, S ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

frontal eye fields; oculomotor capture; saccade; target selection; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTRALATERAL VISUAL FIELD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCULOMOTOR COMPETITION; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; EYE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84875139006     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs075     Document Type: Article

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