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Abstract
Mental rotation is the most distinctly specialized operation of the imagination, one characterized precisely enough psychophysically for parametric study, thereby making it an optimal prospect for isolating and modeling its neural mechanisms. New human brain mapping studies using direct cortical stimulation and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation isolate an area in right superior parietal cortex that appears to be crucial for the mental rotation of objects, but not to the mental rotation of one's body.Entities:
Year: 2003 PMID: 14643362 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2003.10.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Cogn Sci ISSN: 1364-6613 Impact factor: 20.229