Mental visual synthesis is originated in the fronto-temporal network of the left hemisphere

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1376-1383

  Yomogida, Yukihito ^a   Sugiura, Motoaki ^b   Watanabe, Jobu ^b   Akitsuki, Yuko ^b,c   Sassa, Yuko ^b   Sato, Teruyuki ^a   Matsue, Yoshihiko ^d   Kawashima, Ryuta ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FMRI; Human brain; Inferior frontal cortex; Inferior temporal cortex; Visual synthesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; EXPERIENCE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MENTAL VISUAL SYNTHESIS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBALIZATION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL PROCESSES; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 8644248289     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh098     Document Type: Article

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