Imaging the impossible: An fMRI study of impossible causal relationships in magic tricks

NeuroImage

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1033-1039

  Parris, Ben A ^a   Kuhn, Gustav ^b   Mizon, Guy A ^a   Benattayallah, Abdelmalek ^a   Hodgson, Tim L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGIC; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERCEPTION;

EID: 61449099351     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.12.036     Document Type: Article

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