TMS on right frontal eye fields induces an inflexible focus of attention

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 396-402

  Ronconi, Luca ^a   Basso, Demis ^b   Gori, Simone ^a,c   Facoetti, Andrea ^a,c  

^a Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory Department of General Psychology   (Italy)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^c SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attentional scaling; Frontal cortex; Pervasive developmental disorder; Reading disorder; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTIONAL SCALING; FRONTAL CORTEX; PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; READING DISORDER; VISUAL ATTENTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893645905     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs319     Document Type: Article

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