Greater superior than inferior parietal lobule activation with increasing rotation angle during mental rotation: An fMRI study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 529-535

  Gogos, Andrea ^a,b   Gavrilescu, Maria ^a   Davison, Sonia ^c   Searle, Karissa ^a   Adams, Jenny ^c   Rossell, Susan L ^c   Bell, Robin ^c   Davis, Susan R ^c   Egan, Gary F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alphanumeric characters; Parametric; Posterior parietal lobules

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TASK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARAMETRIC TEST; PARIETAL LOBE; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 72449190512     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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