Title
Modulation of neural activity by angle of rotation during imagined spatial transformations.
Abstract
Imagined spatial transformations of objects (e.g., mental rotation) and the self (e.g., perspective taking) are psychologically dissociable. In mental rotation, the viewer transforms the location or orientation of an object relative to stable egocentric and environmental reference frames. In imagined shifts of perspective, the viewer's egocentric reference frame is transformed with respect to stable objects and environment. Using fMRI, we showed that during mental transformations of objects the right superior parietal cortex exhibited a positive linear relationship between hemodynamic response and degrees of rotation. By contrast, during imagined transformations of the self, the same regions exhibited a negative linear trend. We interpret this finding in terms of the role of parietal cortex in coding the locations of objects in relation to the body.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.06.043
NeuroImage
Keywords
Field
DocType
spatial,intrapar- ietal sulcus,parietal,perspective taking,mental rotation,reference frame,parietal cortex,system,dissociation,hemodynamic response,object
Reference frame,Computer vision,Angle of rotation,Neural activity,Psychology,Cognitive psychology,Modulation,Coding (social sciences),Posterior parietal cortex,Artificial intelligence,Intraparietal sulcus,Mental rotation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
33
1
1053-8119
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
1.67
2
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Madeleine Keehner120926.75
Scott A. Guerin2223.52
Michael B. Miller3354.76
David J Turk44210.95
Mary Hegarty552168.20