Parietal theta burst TMS: Functional fractionation observed during bistable perception not evident in attention tasks |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Education Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China;2. Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;3. Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, USA;1. Child Development Centre and Paediatric Sleep Disorders Centre, University Children''s Hospital Zurich, Switzerland;2. Rehabilitation Centre Affoltern am Albis, University Children''s Hospital Zurich, Switzerland;3. Children''s Research Centre, University Children''s Hospital Zurich, Switzerland;4. University Clinics for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Switzerland;5. Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA |
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| Abstract: | When visual input is ambiguous, perception spontaneously alternates between interpretations: bistable perception. Studies have identified two distinct sites near the right intraparietal sulcus where inhibitory transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) affects the frequency of occurrence of these alternations, but strikingly with opposite directions of effect for the two sites. Lesion and TMS studies on spatial and sustained attention have also indicated a parcellation of right parietal cortex, into areas serving distinct attentional functions. We used the exact TMS procedure previously employed to affect bistable perception, yet measured its effect on spatial and sustained attention tasks. Although there was a trend for TMS to affect performance, trends were consistently similar for both parietal sites, with no indication of opposite effects. We interpret this as signifying that the previously observed parietal fractionation of function regarding the perception of ambiguous stimuli is not due to TMS-induced modification of spatial or sustained attention. |
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| Keywords: | Spatial attention Sustained attention Parietal cortex TMS Bistable perception |
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