Brain rCBF and performance in visual imagery tasks: Common and distinct processes

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 696-716

  Kosslyn, Stephen M ^a,b   Thompson, William L ^a   Shephard, Jennifer M ^a   Ganis, Giorgio ^a,b   Bell, Deborah ^a   Danovitch, Judith ^c   Wittenberg, Leah A ^d   Alpert, Nathaniel M ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGERY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PERFORMANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINA IMAGE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 2142660880     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440340000475     Document Type: Article

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