Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and the Understanding of Behavior

The development of the use transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in study psychological functions has entered a new phase sophistication. This is largely due to an increasing physiological knowledge its effects and being used combination with other experimental techniques. review presents current state our understanding mechanisms TMS context designing interpreting experiments. We discuss major conceptual advances behavioral studies using TMS. There are meaningful technical achievements review, as well wealth perceptual cognitive In doing so we summarize different uses challenges mental chronometry, perception, awareness, learning, memory.