The role of early stages of cortical visual processing in size and distance judgment: A transcranial direct current stimulation study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 588, Issue , 2015, Pages 78-82

  Costa, Thiago L ^a,b   Costa, Marcelo F ^a   Magalhães, Adsson ^a   Rêgo, Gabriel G ^b   Nagy, Balázs V ^a   Boggio, Paulo S ^b   Ventura, Dora F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Distance perception; Predictive coding; Scaling; Size perception; TDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RANDOMIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920885180     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.12.055     Document Type: Article

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