Different mental imagery abilities result in different regional cerebral blood flow activation patterns during cognitive tasks

doi:10.1016/0028-3932(92)90059-U

Neuropsychologia

Volume 30, Issue 6, June 1992, Pages 565-569, 571-580

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Abstract

Using regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) imaging, two populations having high and low imagery abilities were compared at rest and while performing two cognitive tasks: silent verb conjugation and mental imagery. The imagery task produced an rCBF increase in the left visual association and left frontal cortices in both groups. Differences between high and low imagers were observed on global and regional flow responses to cognitive tasks: low imagers showed a whole cortex CBF increase during both tasks; high imagers showed a right dominance in the visual association cortex in all conditions, and in the parietal association cortex at rest.

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Different mental imagery abilities result in different regional cerebral blood flow activation patterns during cognitive tasks

Abstract

Neuropsychologia

Cognition

Cogn. Psychol.

Brain Cogn.

Neuropsychologia

Psychiat. Res. Neuroimag.

Neuropsychologia

Cognition

Intelligence

A method for calculating regional cerebral blood flow from emission computed tomography of inert gas concentrations

J. Comput. Assist. Tomogr.

Functional activation of frontal cortex in subvocalization

Neurology

Brain mechanisms subserving self-generated imagery: electrophysiological specificity and patterning

Psychophysiology

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Eur. J. cogn. Psychol.

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Psychol. Rev.

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