Using neurostimulation to understand the impact of pre-morbid individual differences on post-lesion outcomes [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]

Neuropsychological data have proven invaluable in advancing our understanding of higher cognition. The interpretation of such data is, however, complicated by the fact that post-lesion behavioral abnormalities could reflect pre-morbid individual differences in the cognitive domain of interest. Here we exploited the virtual lesion methodology offered by transcranial magnetic stimulation...

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