Submissions tagged with visual cortex
(4 documents)
TMS, phosphenes and visual mental imagery: A mini-review and a theoretical framework
We reviewed the existing research linking visual mental imagery and phosphenes induced by TMS. We examined and contrasted conditions (and parameters) under which intensity and amplitude of TMS appl…
Received 13 May 2009 14:57 UTC; Posted 14 May 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Seeing the invisible: The scope and limits of unconscious processing in binocular rivalry
When an image is presented to one eye and a very different image is presented to the corresponding location of the other eye, they compete for conscious representation, such that only one image is …
Received 29 August 2008 16:55 UTC; Posted 02 September 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
Seeing faces: evidence suggesting cortical disinhibition in the genesis of visual hallucinations.
The neural mechanisms responsible for triggering visual hallucinations are poorly understood. Here, we report a unique patient whose hallucinations consist exclusively of faces, and which could be …
Received 22 April 2008 19:58 UTC; Posted 22 April 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
Posterior parietal cortex controls spatial attention through modulation of anticipatory alpha rhythms
A dorsal fronto-parietal network, including regions in intra-parietal sulcus (IPS) and frontal eye field (FEF), has been hypothesized to control the allocation of spatial attention to environmental…
Received 01 February 2008 13:23 UTC; Posted 01 February 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
