Visual memory and visual mental imagery recruit common control and sensory regions of the brain

Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-20

  Slotnick, Scott D ^a   Thompson, William L ^b   Kosslyn, Stephen M ^c  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Long term memory; Visual imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; CUNEUS; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INFERIOR OCCIPITAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT FAMILIARIZATION; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR OCCIPITAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL MENTAL IMAGERY;

EID: 80051796518     PISSN: 17588928     EISSN: 17588936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2011.578210     Document Type: Article

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