Waves of awareness for occipital and parietal phosphenes perception

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 70, Issue , 2015, Pages 114-125

  Bagattini, Chiara ^a   Mazzi, Chiara ^b   Savazzi, Silvia ^b  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dorsal stream; EEG; Primary visual cortex; TMS evoked potentials; Ventral stream

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NEUROFEEDBACK; PARIETAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; STRIATE CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL THRESHOLD; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED RESPONSE; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AWARENESS; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOSPHENES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925583933     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.02.021     Document Type: Article

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