Visual object cognition precedes but also temporally overlaps mental rotation

Brain Research

Volumn 1294, Issue , 2009, Pages 91-105

  Schendan, Haline E ^a   Lucia, Lisa C ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Mental rotation; Parietal cortex; Spatial cognition; Temporal lobe; Visual object cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIRCLING BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70049093481     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.07.036     Document Type: Article

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