Mental rotation meets the motion aftereffect: The role of hV5/MT+ in visual mental imagery

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1395-1404

  Seurinck, Ruth ^a   de Lange, Floris P ^b   Achten, Erik ^a   Vingerhoets, Guy ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; ROTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953683165     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21525     Document Type: Article

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