Patterns of brain activity during visual imagery of letters

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 282-299

  Raij, Tommi ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0033018516     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892999563391     Document Type: Article

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