A functional MRI study of mental image generation

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 725-730

  D'Esposito, Mark ^a,b   Detre, J A ^a   Aguirre, G K ^a   Stallcup, M ^a   Alsop, D C ^a   Tippet, L J ^a   Farah, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemispheric specialization; Mental imagery; Neuroimaging; Visual association cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030940275     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(96)00121-2     Document Type: Article

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