The contributions of sensory dominance and Attentional bias to cross-modal enhancement of visual cortex excitability

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1122-1135

  Romei, Vincenzo ^a,b   Murray, Micah M ^c,d   Cappe, Céline ^e,f   Thut, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Lausanne   (Switzerland)

^d LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

^f Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; EXCITABILITY; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SOUND; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 84878414210     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00367     Document Type: Article

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