Functional anatomy of high-resolution visual mental imagery

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 98-109

  Mellet, E ^a,c   Tzourio Mazoyer, N ^a   Bricogne, S ^a   Mazoyer, B ^a   Kosslyn, S M ^d   Denis, M ^b  

^a UPRES 2127 Universite de C   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c GIP CYCERON   (France)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MESENCEPHALON; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 0034096103     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/08989290051137620     Document Type: Article

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