Attending to local form while ignoring global aspects depends on handedness: Evidence from TMS

Carmel Mevorach; Glyn W. Humphreys; Lilach Shalev

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Attending to local form while ignoring global aspects depends on handedness: Evidence from TMS

Carmel Mevorach, Glyn W. Humphreys, Lilach Shalev

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Our perceptions of the whole and of the parts of a visual stimulus are mediated by different brain regions. We used low-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to show for the first time that opposite, homologous regions in the two hemispheres are involved in attending to local parts for left-and right-handed individuals. The brain regions that focus on the 'trees' while ignoring the 'forest' are switched as a function of handedness.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	276-277
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Neuroscience
Volume	8
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1400
State	Published - Mar 2005

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This work was supported by a grant from the UK Medical Research Council.

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