Activation of cerebellar hemispheres in spatial memorization of saccadic eye movements: An fMRI study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 155-164

  Nitschke, Matthias F ^a   Binkofski, Ferdinand ^a,b   Buccino, Giovanni ^c   Posse, Stefan ^d   Erdmann, Christian ^a   Kömpf, Detlef ^a   Seitz, Rüdiger J ^b   Heide, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; fMRI; Memory guided; Saccades; Visually guided

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES;

EID: 2942541034     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20025     Document Type: Article

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