title: The left visual-field advantage in rapid visual presentation is amplified rather than reduced by posterior-parietal rTMS.
abstract: In the present task, series of visual stimuli are rapidly presented left and right, containing two target stimuli, T1 and T2. In previous studies, T2 was better identified in the left than in the right visual field. This advantage of the left visual field might reflect dominance exerted by the right over the left hemisphere. If so, then repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the right parietal cortex might release the left hemisphere from right-hemispheric control, thereby improving T2 identification in the right visual field. Alternatively or additionally, the asymmetry in T2 identification might reflect capacity limitations of the left hemisphere, which might be aggravated by rTMS to the left parietal cortex. Therefore, rTMS pulses were applied during each trial, beginning simultaneously with T1 presentation. rTMS was directed either to P4 or to P3 (right or left parietal cortex) either as effective or as sham stimulation. In two experiments, either one of these two factors, hemisphere and effectiveness of rTMS, was varied within or between participants. Again, T2 was much better identified in the left than in the right visual field. This advantage of the left visual field was indeed modified by rTMS, being further increased by rTMS to the left hemisphere rather than being reduced by rTMS to the right. It may be concluded that superiority of the right hemisphere in this task implies that this hemisphere is less irritable by external interference than the left hemisphere.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, 23538, Lübeck, Germany. rolf.verleger@neuro.uni-Luebeck.de
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Verleger
authors.forename: Friderike
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Möller
authors.forename: Michał
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuniecki
authors.forename: Kamila
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Smigasiewicz
authors.forename: Sergiu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Groppa
authors.forename: Hartwig R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Siebner
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D001931:Brain Mapping; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D050781:Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*
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