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The Role of Area 17 in Visual Imagery: Convergent Evidence from PET and rTMS by Kosslyn, S. M., Pascual-Leone, A., Felician, O., Camposano, S., Keenan, J. P., Thompson, W. L., Ganis, G., Sukel, K. E., Alpert, N. M.

“…Visual imagery is used in a wide range of mental activities, ranging from memory to reasoning, and also plays a role in perception proper. The contribution of…”
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Neural Correlates of Different Types of Deception: An fMRI Investigation by Ganis, G., Kosslyn, S.M., Stose, S., Thompson, W.L., Yurgelun-Todd, D.A.

“…Deception is a complex cognitive activity, and different types of lies could arise from different neural systems. We investigated this possibility by first…”
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Hypnotic Visual Illusion Alters Color Processing in the Brain by Kosslyn, Stephen M., Thompson, William L., Costantini-Ferrando, Maria F., Alpert, Nathaniel M., Spiegel, David

“…OBJECTIVE: This study was designed to determine whether hypnosis can modulate color perception. Such evidence would provide insight into the nature of hypnosis…”
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If neuroimaging is the answer, what is the question? by Kosslyn, S. M., Kosslyn, S. M.

“…It is unclear that we will come to a better understanding of mental processes simply by observing which neural loci are activated while subjects perform a…”
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Changes in cortical activity during mental rotation A mapping study using functional MRI by Cohen, M. S., Kosslyn, S. M., Breiter, H. C., DiGirolamo, G. J., Thompson, W. L., Anderson, A. K., Bookheimer, S. Y., Rosen, B. R., Belliveau, J. W.

“…Summary Mental imagery is an important cognitive method for problem solving, and the mental rotation of complex objects, as originally described by Shepard and…”
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Motor processes in mental rotation by Wexler, Mark, Kosslyn, Stephen M, Berthoz, Alain

“…Much indirect evidence supports the hypothesis that transformations of mental images are at least in part guided by motor processes, even in the case of images…”
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Functional anatomy of high-resolution visual mental imagery by Mellet, E, Tzourio-Mazoyer, N, Bricogne, S, Mazoyer, B, Kosslyn, S M, Denis, M

“…This study had two purposes. First, in order to address the controversy regarding activation of the primary visual area (PVA) during visual mental imagery,…”
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Regional Cerebral Blood Flow During Script-Driven Imagery in Childhood Sexual Abuse-Related PTSD: A PET Investigation by Shin, Lisa M., McNally, Richard J., Kosslyn, Stephen M., Thompson, William L., Rauch, Scott L., Alpert, Nathaniel M., Metzger, Linda J., Lasko, Natasha B., Orr, Scott P., Pitman, Roger K.

“…OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine whether anterior limbic and para­limbic regions of the brain are differentially activated during the…”
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Mental rotation of objects versus hands: Neural mechanisms revealed by positron emission tomography by KOSSLYN, STEPHEN M., DIGIROLAMO, GREGORY J., THOMPSON, WILLIAM L., ALPERT, NATHANIEL M.

“…Twelve right-handed men participated in two mental rotation tasks as their regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was monitored using positron emission…”
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Impact of fMRI acoustic noise on the functional anatomy of visual mental imagery by Mazard, A, Mazoyer, B, Etard, O, Tzourio-Mazoyer, N, Kosslyn, S M, Mellet, E

“…One drawback of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is that the subject must endure intense noise during testing. We examined the possible role of…”
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Topographical representations of mental images in primary visual cortex by Kosslyn, Stephen M, Thompson, William L, Klm, Irene J, Alpert, Nathaniel M

“…We report here the use of positron emission tomography (PET) to reveal that the primary visual cortex is activated when subjects close their eyes and visualize…”
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Mental Imagery and Aging by Dror, Itiel E, Kosslyn, Stephen M

“…Young adult and elderly Ss performed 4 visual mental imagery tasks, each of which tapped different processes. The elderly had relatively impaired image…”
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Transient activity in the human calcarine cortex during visual-mental imagery: an event-related fMRI study by Klein, I, Paradis, A L, Poline, J B, Kosslyn, S M, Le Bihan, D

“…Although it is largely accepted that visual-mental imagery and perception draw on many of the same neural structures, the existence and nature of neural…”
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MiniCog : A method for administering psychological tests and experiments on a handheld personal digital assistant by SHEPHARD, J. M, KHO, S, CHEN, J, KOSSLYN, S. M

“…Because of their minimal cost, size, and weight, handheld personal digital assistants (PDAs) are appealing as a means for administering response time tasks "in…”
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The cognitive neuroscience of mental imagery by Kosslyn, S.M., Behrmann, M., Jeannerod, M.

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Neural foundations of imagery by Kosslyn, Stephen M, Ganis, Giorgio, Thompson, William L

“…Mental imagery has, until recently, fallen within the purview of philosophy and cognitive psychology. Both enterprises have raised important questions about…”
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Visual imagery and visual-spatial language: enhanced imagery abilities in deaf and hearing ASL signers by Emmorey, K, Kosslyn, S M, Bellugi, U

“…The ability to generate visual mental images, to maintain them, and to rotate them was studied in deaf signers of American Sign Language (ASL), hearing signers…”
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Identifying objects seen from different viewpoints. A PET investigation by Kosslyn, S M, Alpert, N M, Thompson, W L, Chabris, C F, Rauch, S L, Anderson, A K

“…Positron emission tomography scans were acquired when subjects performed three tasks, each in a separate block of trials. They decided whether words named…”
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Placebo-Induced Changes in fMRI in the Anticipation and Experience of Pain by Wager, Tor D., Rilling, James K., Smith, Edward E., Sokolik, Alex, Casey, Kenneth L., Davidson, Richard J., Kosslyn, Stephen M., Rose, Robert M., Cohen, Jonathan D.

“…The experience of pain arises from both physiological and psychological factors, including one's beliefs and expectations. Thus, placebo treatments that have…”
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Form-Specific Visual Priming in the Right Cerebral Hemisphere by Marsolek, Chad J, Kosslyn, Stephen M, Squire, Larry R

“…Results of 4 experiments indicate that both within-modality and case-specific visual priming for words are greater when test stimuli are presented initially to…”
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