Disentangling visual imagery and perception of real-world objects

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4064-4073

  Lee, Sue Hyun ^a   Kravitz, Dwight J ^a   Baker, Chris I ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Human; Mental imagery; Object recognition; Top down; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; MALE; MULTI VOXEL PATTERN ANALYSIS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL IMAGINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84857030698     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.10.055     Document Type: Article

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