Figure 1.

Summary of cTBS and task protocol in experiments 1 and 2. Participants completed a same–different auditory emotion (experiment 1) or identity (experiment 2) matching task. Both experiments consisted of three testing sessions conducted over three nonconsecutive days. At each testing session one of the three brain regions was stimulated (rPoG, rPM or the vertex) and each task was completed before and 5 min following cTBS to each site. The 5 min rest period was based on the observed time course of effects seen in the motor cortex (Di Lazzaro et al., 2005; Huang et al., 2005).