Neuromodulation of early multisensory interactions in the visual cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 685-696

  Convento, Silvia ^a   Vallar, Giuseppe ^a,b   Galantini, Chiara ^a   Bolognini, Nadia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 84875515413     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00347     Document Type: Article

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