Fronto-tectal white matter connectivity mediates facilitatory effects of non-invasive neurostimulation on visual detection

NeuroImage

Volumn 82, Issue , 2013, Pages 344-354

  Quentin, Romain ^a   Chanes, Lorena ^a   Migliaccio, Raffaella ^a   Valabrègue, Romain ^d   Valero Cabré, Antoni ^a,b,c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE ÉPINIÈRE   (France)

Author keywords

Cortico tectal projections; Diffusion tensor imaging; Frontal Eye Field; Neuroanatomy; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation; Visuo spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; FRONTOTECTAL WHITE MATTER CONNECTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VISUAL THRESHOLD; VISUOATTENTIONAL BEHAVIOR; WHITE MATTER;

CORTICO-TECTAL PROJECTIONS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; NEUROANATOMY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUO-SPATIAL ATTENTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879708014     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.083     Document Type: Article

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