Imagined transformations of bodies: An fMRI investigation

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1029-1040

  Zacks, Jeff ^a   Rypma, Bart ^a   Gabrieli, J D E ^a   Tversky, Barbara ^a   Glover, Gary H ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Egocentric; fMRI; Mental rotation; Perspective; Spatial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; KINESTHESIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032991846     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(99)00012-3     Document Type: Article

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