The compensatory dynamic of inter-hemispheric interactions in visuospatial attention revealed using rTMS and fMRI

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 APR, 2014, Pages

  Plow, Ela B ^a,b   Cattaneo, Zaira ^b,c,d   Carlson, Thomas A ^e,f   Alvarez, George A ^f   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^b,g   Battelli, Lorella ^b,h  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d C MONDINO NATIONAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g University Institute affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona   (Spain)

^h ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

fMRI; Inter hemispheric interaction; TMS; Visual extinction; Visuospatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INTERHEMISPHERIC INTERACTION; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION SYSTEM; VISUAL EXTINCTION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOSPATIAL ATTENTION;

EID: 84898855662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00226     Document Type: Article

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