Mental Space Travel: Damage to Posterior Parietal Cortex Prevents Egocentric Navigation and Reexperiencing of Remote Spatial Memories

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 619-634

  Ciaramelli, Elisa ^a   Rosenbaum, R Shayna ^b   Solcz, Stephanie ^b,c   Levine, Brian ^d   Moscovitch, Morris ^d  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

memory retrieval; posterior parietal cortex; remote spatial memory; spatial reference frames

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INJURY; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77953141976     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019181     Document Type: Article

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