Visual mental imagery induces retinotopically organized activation of early visual areas

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1570-1583

  Slotnick, Scott D ^a   Thompson, William L ^b   Kosslyn, Stephen M ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extrastriate; fMRI; Imagery; Perception; Retinotopy; Striate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RETINA; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 25144474458     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhi035     Document Type: Article

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