Individual differences in cerebral blood flow in area 17 predict the time to evaluate visualized letters

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 78-82

  Kosslyn, Stephen M ^a,c   Thompson, William L ^a   Kim, Irene J ^a   Rauch, Scott L ^b   Alpert, Nathaniel M ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Massachusetts General Hospital ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

EID: 0030066207     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1996.8.1.78     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Damasio, H., Grabowski, T. J., Damasio, A., Tranel, D., Boles-Ponto, L., Watkins, G. L. & Hichwa, R. D. (1993). Visual recall with eyes closed and covered activates early visual cortices. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 19, Part 2, p. 1603.
2. Farah, M. J., Soso, M. J., & Dasheiff, R. M. (1992). Visual angle of the mind's eye before and after unilateral occipital lobectomy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 18, 241-246.
3. Friston, K. J., Frith, C. D., Liddle, P. F., & Frackowiak, R. S. J. (1991). Comparing functional (PET) images: The assessment of significant changes. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 11, 690-699.
4. Goldenberg, G., Podreka, I., Steiner, M., Willmes, K., Suess, E., & Deecke, L. (1989). Regional cerebral blood flow patterns in visual imagery. Neuropsychologia, 27, 641-664.
5. Goldman-Rakic, P. S. (1987). Circuitry of primate prefrontal cortex and regulation of behavior by representational knowledge. In F. Plum & V. Mountcastle (Eds.), Handbook of physiology, Section I: The nervous system, Volume 5: Higher functions of the brain (pp. 373-417). Bethesda, MD: American Physiological Society.
6. Kosslyn, S. M. (1994). Image and brain: The resolution of the imagery debate. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
7. Kosslyn, S. M., Alpert, N. M., Thompson, W. L., Maljkovic, V., Weise, S. B., Chabris, C. F., Hamilton, S. E., Rauch, S. L., & Buonanno, F. S. (1993). Visual mental imagery activates topographically organized visual cortex: PET investigations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 5, 263-287.
8. Kosslyn, S. M., Thompson, W. L., Kim, I. J. and Alpert, N. M. (1995). Topographical representations of mental images in primary visual cortex. Nature, 378, 496-498.
9. Le Bihan, D., Turner, R., Zeffiro, T. A., Cuénod, C. A., Jezzard, P., & Bonnerot, V. (1993). Activation of human primary visual cortex during visual recall: A magnetic resonance imaging study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., 5, 11802-11805.
10. Menon, R., Ogawa, S., Tank, D. W., Ellermann, J., Merkele, H., & Ugurbil, K. (1993). Visual mental imagery by functional brain MRI. In D. Le Bihan, R. Turner, M. Mosley, & J. Hyde (Eds.), Functional MRI of the brain: A workshop presented by the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine ana the Society for Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Arlington, VA: Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
11. Roland, P. E., & Gulyas, B. (1994). Visual imagery and visual representation. Trends in Neurosciences, 17, 281-287.
12. Smith, E. E., & Jonides, J. (1994). Working memory in humans: Neuropsychological evidence. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The cognitive neurosciences (pp. 1009-1020). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
13. Talairach, J., Szikla, G., Tournoux, P., Prossalentis, A., Bordas-Ferrer, M., Covello, L., Iacob, M., & Mempel, E. (1967). Atlas of stereotactic anatomy of the telencephalon. Paris: Masson.
14. Talairach, J., & Tournoux, P. (tr. M. Rayport). (1988). Co-planar stereotaxic atlas of the human brain. New York: Thieme.