Reference frames for spatial cognition: Different brain areas are involved in viewer-, object-, and landmark-centered judgments about object location

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1517-1535

  Committeri, Giorgia ^a,b   Galati, Gaspare ^b,c   Paradis, Anne Lise ^a,d   Pizzamiglio, Luigi ^b,e   Berthoz, Alain ^d   LeBihan, Denis ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 10144259359     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929042568550     Document Type: Article

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