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Functional Neuroanatomy of Mental Rotation Performance
- Psychology, Biology
- 2007
Although the reviewed studies differ in terms of used stimuli, mental rotation procedure, or brain imaging method, there is consistency for the core regions, which are involved in mental rotation (superior parietal lobe and the intraparietal sulcus).
Differential activation of the human brain during mental rotation paradigms, an fMRI study
- Psychology, Biology
- 2007
It is concluded that men and women use a very similar motor strategy during egocentric mental rotation with a potential gender-specific accent, and men outperform women on several spatial ability measures and the Mental Rotations Test (MRT) shows a robust sex difference.
Effect of degree and direction of rotation in egocentric mental rotation of hand: an event-related potential study
- PsychologyNeuroreport
- 2009
The event-related potentials measure supported the idea that amplitude modulation in the parietal cortex is a psychophysiological marker of the mental rotation of hand and the rotation-direction-dependent modulation of a positive wave was identified as possible neural correlate for the egocentric nature of such mental rotation.
Parietal Lobe Contribution to Mental Rotation Demonstrated with rTMS
- Psychology, BiologyJournal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- 2003
The results indicate that the right superior posterior parietal lobe plays an essential role in mental rotation, consistent with its involvement in a variety of visuospatial and visuomotor transformations.
TMS of supplementary motor area (SMA) facilitates mental rotation performance: Evidence for sequence processing in SMA
- Psychology, BiologyNeuroImage
- 2017
The role of dorsal premotor cortex in mental rotation: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study
- Psychology, BiologyBrain and Cognition
- 2017
Role of motor processes in extrinsically encoding mental transformations
- Psychology, BiologyBrain and Cognition
- 2010
Cortical Activation in Mental Rotation and the Role of the Corpus Callosum: Observations in Healthy Subjects and Split-Brain Patients
- Psychology, BiologySymmetry
- 2021
The results suggest that performing MR requires activation of opercular cortex and inferior parietal lobule in either hemispheres, and likely the integrity of the CC, thus confirming that the main brain commissure is involved in cognitive functions.
Is the Imitative Competence an Asymmetrically Distributed Function?
- Psychology, BiologyFrontiers in Systems Neuroscience
- 2021
The results strongly point to the conclusion that AI and MR competence requires interhemispheric communication, mainly occurring through the corpus callosum, which is the largest white matter structure in the human brain.
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