Abstract
In human visual analysis, the initial processing of motion and chromatic signals may be mediated by feed-forward pathways from striate cortex to segregated areas of extrastriate cortex. The time-course of occipital to temporo-parieto-occipital motion processing was unknown, as was the selectivity of the effect of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on motion processing. TMS delivered over occipital cortex degraded the discrimination of motion-defined form (MDF) in a discrete time window beginning 100-120 ms from the onset of the visual stimulus. Bilateral focal TMS delivered over the temporo-parieto-occipital junction (TPO) disrupted the discrimination of MDF in a time window beginning 20-40 ms later than the effect of TMS delivered over occipital cortex. Bilateral focal TMS delivered over TPO also degraded the discrimination of CDF, motion direction, and color.
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