Functional activation of the human brain during mental rotation

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 111-118

  Alivisatos, Bessie ^a   Petrides, Michael ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mental rotation; Mirror image discrimination; Parietal cortex; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0030590829     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(96)00083-8     Document Type: Article

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