rTMS of Medial Parieto-occipital Cortex Interferes with Attentional Reorienting during Attention and Reaching Tasks

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1453-1462

  Ciavarro, Marco ^a,b   Ambrosini, Ettore ^b   Tosoni, Annalisa ^b   Committeri, Giorgia ^b   Fattori, Patrizia ^a   Galletti, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE POSITION; FRAMELESS STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MACACA; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEURONAVIGATION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETO-OCCIPITAL SULCUS; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACHING TASK; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84880798745     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00409     Document Type: Article

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