Cognition: mental rotation.

The writer asserts that cognitive neuroscience endeavors to identify the brain events that underlie cognitive operations. He presents a set of figures that represent neuronal vector firing changes in the motor cortex of a monkey that are related to the cognitive operation of mental rotation. He re...

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Published in:American Journal of Psychiatry Vol. 157; no. 5; pp. 695 - 696
Main Author: Georgopoulos, Apostolos P.
Format: Article
Published: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. May 2000
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