Transient impairment of visual perception induced by single interictal occipital spikes

Impairment of visual perception and visu

Impairment of visual perception and visual short term memory scanning by transcranial magnetic stimulation of occipital cortex

✍ G. Beckers; V. Hömberg 📂 Article 📅 1991 🏛 Springer-Verlag 🌐 English ⚖ 1021 KB

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of occipital cortex was performed using a magneto-electric stimulator with a maximum output of 2 Tesla in 24 normal volunteers. The identification of trigrams, presented for 14 ms in horizontal or vertical arrays was significantly impaired when the visual stim