Cortical activation evoked by visual mental imagery as measured by fMRI

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-412551
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.41255

Knauff, Markus ; Kassubek, Jan ; Mulack, Thomas ; Greenlee, Mark W.

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Abstract

One of the major controversies in cognitive neuroscience is whether the primary visual cortex and nearby areas are involved in visual mental imagery. In an fMRI study we examined the brain activity of 10 healthy subjects under different task conditions: in the perception condition subjects saw complex geometrical shapes and had to decide whether other highlighted stimuli fell inside or outside ...