Multiple Routes to Mental Animation: Language and Functional Relations Drive Motion Processing for Static Images

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1379-1388

  Coventry, Kenny R ^a,b   Christophel, Thomas B ^c   Fehr, Thorsten ^d,e   Valdés Conroy, Berenice ^f   Herrmann, Manfred ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

fMRI; hemispheric differences; language; mental animation; motion processing; neuroimaging; prediction; visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DIFFERENCES; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL ANIMATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PROCESSING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

FMRI; HEMISPHERIC DIFFERENCES; LANGUAGE; MENTAL ANIMATION; MOTION PROCESSING; NEUROIMAGING; PREDICTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881224194     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612469209     Document Type: Article

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