Feel the noise: Relating individual differences in auditory imagery to the structure and function of sensorimotor systems

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4638-4650

  Lima, César F ^a,c   Lavan, Nadine ^a,d   Evans, Samuel ^a   Agnew, Zarinah ^a,e   Halpern, Andrea R ^f   Shanmugalingam, Pradheep ^a   Meekings, Sophie ^a   Boebinger, Dana ^a   Ostarek, Markus ^a   McGettigan, Carolyn ^a,d   Warren, Jane E ^b   Scott, Sophie K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory imagery; Auditory processing; FMRI; Supplementary motor area; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOUND; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOCALIZATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGINATION; INDIVIDUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VASCULARIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NOISE; OXYGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84954285682     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhv134     Document Type: Article

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