When Is Early Visual Cortex Activated during Visual Mental Imagery?

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 723-746

  Kosslyn, Stephen M ^a   Thompson, William L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; METABOLISM; NON-PROGRAMMATIC; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0141541744     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.129.5.723     Document Type: Review

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