The Contribution of TMS to Structure-Function Mapping in the Human Brain

Action, Perception and Higher Functions

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) has become one of the methods of choice in the cognitive neurosciences for investigating causal interactions in the human brain. Its success is mirrored by a burgeoning field and ever-increasing number of studies, and TMS has progressively become one of the most promising techniques for the study of sensorimotor and cognitive functions. This Special Issue will present a collection of up-to-date reviews and position papers on methodological developments and novel topics in TMS research, which will alert the reader to the importance for studies of cognition to understand the precise mechanisms through which TMS can affect cortical function. These will be complemented by a collection of timely original studies presenting the state-of-the-art of TMS studies of cognition. This Special Issue will show how TMS can provide unique information about causal-structure mapping in the healthy human brain.

Guest Editors: Elena Rusconi and Sven Bestmann

Editorial:
01. TMS Editorial (pdf)


Positional Papers:
01. What can TMS tell us about visual awareness (pdf)

02. Neuronavigation for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): where we are and where we are going (pdf)

03. TMS and the functional neuroanatomy of attention (pdf)

04. Stronger inference with direct manipulation of brain function (pdf)

05. TMS in cognitive neuroscience: virtual lesion and beyond (pdf)

06. The mechanism of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in cognition (pdf)


Research Papers:
01. How does transcranial magnetic stimulation modify neuronal activity in the brain? Implications for studies of cognition (pdf)

02. Lexical ambiguity resolution in Wernicke's area and its right homologue (pdf)

03. Combining TMS and fMRI: From 'virtual lesions' to functional-network accounts of cognition (pdf)

04. The temporal characteristics of functional activation in Broca's area during overt picture naming (pdf)

05. Biophysical foundations underlying TMS: Setting the stage for an effective use of neurostimulation in the cognitive neurosciences (pdf)

06. M1 contributes to the movements but not the goal of motor-skills (pdf)

07. The role of the anterior temporal lobes in the comprehension of concrete and abstract words: rTMS evidence (pdf)

08. Supramarginal gyrus involvement in visual word recognition (pdf)

09. A Brain for Numbers (pdf)

10. Freezing or escaping? Opposite modulations of empathic reactivity to the pain of others (pdf)

11. Human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and visual search: a theta TMS study (pdf)

12. SOMATOSENSORY PROCESSING AND BODY REPRESENTATION (pdf)

13. Ventral premotor to primary motor cortical interactions during object driven grasp in humans (pdf)

14. Scaling of motor cortical excitability during unimanual force generation (pdf)


Commentaries:
01. Does TMS need functional imaging? (pdf)