Contribution of right hemisphere to visual imagery: A visual working memory impairment?

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 902-911

  Gasparini, Marina ^a   Hufty, Anne Marie ^a   Masciarelli, Giovanni ^a   Ottaviani, Donatella ^a   Angeloni, Ugo ^a   Lenzi, Gian Luigi ^a   Bruno, Giuseppe ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Thalamus; Visual imagery; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DRAWING; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; IMAGERY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 51349143696     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617708080995     Document Type: Article

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