The Focus on Neuroscience box, "Seeing Faces and Places in the Mind's Eye," reports on an fMRI study of mental imagery. One of the findings of the study was that:
A) looking at places activated the parahippocampal place area, and imagining places activated the fusiform facial area.
B) imagining a scene and perceiving that scene activated different brain areas.
C) looking at faces activated the parahippocampal place area, and imagining faces activated the fusiform facial area.
D) imagining a scene and perceiving that scene activated the same brain areas.

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The study found that imagining a scene and perceiving that scene activated the same brain areas, indicating that mental imagery and perception share neural mechanisms.

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