The role of the right superior temporal gyrus in stimulus-centered spatial processing.

ABSTRACT: Although emerging neuropsychological evidence supports the involvement of temporal areas, and in particular the right superior temporal gyrus (STG), in allocentric neglect deficits, the role of STG in healthy spatial processing remains elusive. While several functional brain imaging studies have demonstrated involvement of the STG in tasks involving explicit stimulus-centered judgments, prior rTMS studies targeting the right STG did not find the expected neglect-like rightward bias in size judgments using the conventional landmark task. The objective of the current study was to investigate whether disruption of the right STG using inhibitory repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) could impact stimulus-centered, allocentric spatial processing in healthy individuals. A lateraliz

SUBMITTER: Shah-Basak PP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5930047 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature