Rotated alphanumeric characters do not automatically activate frontoparietal areas subserving mental rotation

NeuroImage

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1063-1073

  Weiss, Michael M ^a,b   Wolbers, Thomas ^b,c,e   Peller, Martin ^a,b   Witt, Karsten ^a   Marshall, Lisa ^d   Buchel, Christian ^b,e   Siebner, Hartwig R ^a,b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b NeuroImageNord Hamburg Kiel Lübeck ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^f HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dorsal premotor cortex; Frontal eye field; Intraparietal sulcus; Letters; Mental rotation; Numbers; Stimulus categorization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER;

COGNITION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; ROTATION; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57749208367     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.09.042     Document Type: Article

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