Top-down interference and cortical responsiveness in face processing: A TMS-EEG study

NeuroImage

Volumn 76, Issue , 2013, Pages 24-32

  Mattavelli, Giulia ^a   Rosanova, Mario ^b   Casali, Adenauer G ^b   Papagno, Costanza ^a   Romero Lauro, Leonor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Face processing; TMS EEG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; RIGHT PREMOTOR CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84876326565     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.03.020     Document Type: Article

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