Mirrored or identical - Is the role of visual perception underestimated in the mental rotation process of 3D-objects?: A combined fMRI-eye tracking-study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1844-1851

  Paschke, Kerstin ^a,b   Jordan, Kirsten ^b   Wüstenberg, Torsten ^c   Baudewig, Jürgen ^b,d   Leo Müller, Jürgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Mental rotation; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84862877730     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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