Motor imagery in mental rotation: An fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1623-1633

  Vingerhoets, Guy ^a   De Lange, Floris P ^a   Vandemaele, Pieter ^a   Deblaere, Karel ^a   Achten, Erik ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HAND; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0036429758     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1290     Document Type: Article

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