Functional anatomy of spatial mental imagery generated from verbal instructions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 6504-6512

  Mellet, Emmanuel ^a   Tzourio, Nathalie ^a   Crivello, Fabrice ^a   Joliot, Marc ^a   Denis, Michel ^b   Mazoyer, Bernard ^a,c  

^a SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c GIP CYCERON   (France)

Author keywords

cerebral blood flow; dorsal visual pathway; frontal cortex; occipital cortex; parietal cortex; position emission tomography; precuneus; spatial mental imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COGNITION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0029837899     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-20-06504.1996     Document Type: Article

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