Dynamics of EEG rhythms support distinct visual selection mechanisms in parietal cortex: A simultaneous transcranial magnetic stimulation and EEG study

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 721-730

  Capotosto, Paolo ^a   Spadone, Sara ^a   Tosoni, Annalisa ^a   Sestieri, Carlo ^a   Romani, Gian Luca ^a   Penna, Stefania Della ^a   Corbetta, Maurizio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; EEG rhythms; Parietal cortex; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN WAVES; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84920982571     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2066-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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