Neural circuits of hierarchical visuo-spatial sequence processing

Brain Research

Volumn 1298, Issue , 2009, Pages 161-170

  Bahlmann, Jörg ^a   Schubotz, Ricarda I ^b   Mueller, Jutta L ^a   Koester, Dirk ^c   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Broca's area; fMRI; Hierarchy; Pre SMA; Visual sequence processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 71749096548     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.08.017     Document Type: Article

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