Functional neuroanatomy of mental rotation performance

Spatial Processing in Navigation, Imagery and Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 183-207

  Jäncke, Lutz ^a   Jordan, Kirsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

cognitive strategies; functional neuroanatomy; intraparietal sulcus; mental rotation; parietal lobe

Indexed keywords

EID: 73249123888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-71978-8_12     Document Type: Chapter

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