Does TMS on V3 block conscious visual perception?
Neuropsychologia May 2019 Niina Salminen-Vaparanta, Mika Koivisto, Victor Vorobyev et al.
Primary visual cortex (V1) and extrastriate V2 are necessary for the emergence of visual consciousness, but the effects of involvement of extrastriate V3 on visual consciousness is unclear. The objective of this study was to examine the causal role of V3 in visual consciousness in humans. We combined neuronavigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with a computational model of the...
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.11.013 (opens in new tab)
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Cerebral cortex
FMRI
Tms
V2
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