The Role of the Parietal Lobe in Visual Extinction Studied with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Interhemispheric competition between homologous areas in the human brain is believed to be involved in a wide variety of human behaviors from motor activity to visual perception and particularly attention. For example, patients with lesions in the posterior parietal cortex are unable to selectively...

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Main Authors: Battelli, Lorella, Alvarez, George A., Carlson, Thomas, Pascual-Leone, Alvaro
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press with the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65927