Cerebrally lateralized mental representations of hand shape and movement

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 6539-6548

  Parsons, Lawrence M ^a   Gabrieli, John D E ^b   Phelps, Elizabeth A ^c   Gazzaniga, Michael S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral lateralization; Mental imagery; Motor imagery; Shape recognition; Split brain; Visual object discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORPUS CALLOSUM TRANSSECTION; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLIT BRAIN; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0032529342     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-16-06539.1998     Document Type: Article

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