title: Is primary visual cortex necessary for visual awareness?
abstract: Influential models propose that conscious experience of extrastriate activity requires the integrity of primary visual cortex (V1). A new study challenges this view by demonstrating that when V1 is lesioned, visual qualia can be induced when transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is applied over the patients' ipsilesional hemisphere.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, W1W 6UW, London, UK; Brain Research Unit, O.V. Lounasmaa Laboratory, School of Science, Aalto University, PO BOX 15100, 00076 Aalto, Finland. Electronic address: j.silvanto@westminster.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Juha
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Silvanto
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D006801:Humans; D050781:Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*