Dynamic premotor-to-parietal interactions during spatial imagery

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 34, 2008, Pages 8417-8429

  Sack, Alexander T ^a   Jacobs, Christianne ^a   De Martino, Federico ^a   Staeren, Noel ^a   Goebel, Rainer ^a   Formisano, Elia ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

fMRI; Parietal cortex; Premotor cortex; Spatial cognition; Spatial imagery; Visuospatial processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION; COGNITION; IMAGINATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 51649097712     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2656-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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