Brain areas underlying visual mental imagery and visual perception: An fMRI study

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 226-241

  Ganis, Giorgio ^a,b,c   Thompson, William L ^a   Kosslyn, Stephen M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cognitive control processes; Cognitive neuroscience; fMRI; Neural Basis of Behavior; Visual cognition; Visual imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION;

ADULT; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMIC NUCLEI; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 2942590440     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.02.012     Document Type: Article

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