Causal contributions of the left frontal eye field to conscious perception

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 745-753

  Chica, Ana B ^a,b   Valero Cabré, Antoni ^a,c,d   Paz Alonso, Pedro M ^e   Bartolomeo, Paolo ^a,f  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^e BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

conscious perception; frontal eye field; spatial attention; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUS PERCEPTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

CONSCIOUS PERCEPTION; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; SPATIAL ATTENTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894241730     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs357     Document Type: Article

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