Tracking the Mind's Image in the Brain II

Sack, Alexander T., Sperling, Julia M., Prvulovic, David, Formisano, Elia, Goebel, Rainer, Di Salle, Francesco, Dierks, Thomas and Linden, David Edmund Johannes ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5638-9292 2002. Tracking the Mind's Image in the Brain II. Neuron 35 (1) , pp. 195-204. 10.1016/S0896-6273(02)00745-6

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Abstract

The functional relevance of brain activity during visuospatial tasks was investigated by combining functional magnetic resonance imaging with unilateral repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). The cognitive tasks involved visuospatial operations on visually presented and mentally imagined material (“mental clock task”). While visuospatial operations were associated with activation of the intraparietal sulcus region bilaterally, only the group which received rTMS to the right parietal lobe showed an impairment of performance during and immediately after rTMS. This functional parietal asymmetry might indicate a capacity of the right parietal lobe to compensate for a temporary suppression of the left. This is compatible with current theories of spatial hemineglect and constitutes a constraint for models of distributed information processing in the parietal lobes.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine Psychology MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher:	Cell Press
ISSN:	0896-6273
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 08:55
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/34798

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