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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Investigating Causal Brain-behavioral Relationships and their Time Course
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Investigating Causal Brain-behavioral Relationships and their Time Course
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July 18, 2014
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a technique for non-invasively disrupting neural information processing and measuring its effect on behavior. When TMS interferes with a task, it indicates that the stimulated brain region is necessary for normal task performance, allowing one to systematically relate brain regions to cognitive functions.
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Sliwinska, M. W., Vitello, S., Devlin, J. T. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Investigating Causal Brain-behavioral Relationships and their Time Course. J. Vis. Exp. (89), e51735, doi:10.3791/51735 (2014).
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