Seeing faces and objects with the "mind's eye"

Archives Italiennes de Biologie

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-9

  Ishai, Alumit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Connectivity; FMRI; Imagery; Objects; Perception

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; FACE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGINATION; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE NET; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77950853754     PISSN: 00039829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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