Imagining being somewhere else: Neural basis of changing perspective in space

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 166-174

  Lambrey, Simon ^a,b   Doeller, Christian ^a,c,d   Berthoz, Alain ^e   Burgess, Neil ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

fMRI; hippocampus; perspective taking; retrosplenial cortex; spatial memory; virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PARIETO-OCCIPITAL SULCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; ROTATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORIENTATION; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84055184522     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr101     Document Type: Article

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