Mental maze solving: Directional fMRI tuning and population coding in the superior parietal lobule

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 273-282

  Gourtzelidis, Pavlos ^a,b   Tzagarakis, Charidimos ^a,b   Lewis, Scott M ^a,b,c   Crowe, David A ^a,b   Auerbach, Edward ^b   Jerde, Trenton A ^a,c   Uğurbil, Kâmil ^b,c   Georgopoulos, Apostolos P ^a,b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional tuning; fMRI; Mental tracing; Spatial cognition; Superior parietal lobule

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL POPULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 23944492094     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-2298-6     Document Type: Article

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