Different neuronal pathways support the generation of general and specific mental images

NeuroImage

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 544-552

  Gardini, Simona ^a,c   De Beni, Rossana ^a   Cornoldi, Cesare ^a   Bromiley, Andrew ^b   Venneri, Annalena ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

fMRI; General image; Imagery; Mental image generation; Specific image

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS; VISION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 23744458092     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.04.032     Document Type: Article

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