visual area


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Synonyms for visual area

the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus

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Not surprisingly, pilots are expected to avoid obstacles in the visual area following an instrument approach, possibly while contending with crummy weather and poor visibility.
"A model of neuronal responses in visual area MT," Vision Research, vol.
We reported earlier that the Apple iWatch is expected to wield a flexible display and a slap bracelet with the visual area changing in size according to the size of the wearer's wrist.
Add talking on a cell phone, and your visual area shuts down significantly, which obviously is key to performing the maneuver," said Dr.
These animals had neuroanatomical deficits evident as fewer horizontal binocular connections in visual area V1 (striate cortex) [32].
We determined age-related changes of astrocytes in the visual area V2 of young (2-3 years old) and old (12-13 years old) cats.
The UFOV is the visual area over which information can be extracted at a single glance.
Tests revealed that the loss of vision was caused by damage to the visual area in the brain's cortex.
Whether the images were pleasant or disturbing, borderline personality disorder patients displayed heightened blood flow--a marker of neural activity--in the brain's chief visual area and in the amygdala, a key structure in emotion regulation.
To further its mission to minimize invasive surgery Robarts Research Institute, Canada's only independent center for medical research, recently installed high-performance visualization technology from Silicon Graphics as well as SGI(R) InfiniteStorage and Visual Area Networking systems.
He now lists our own gardens as brown sites, giving developers carte blanche to knock down well-maintained lovely houses, and in many casesdestroying the pleasant visual area and environment.
A primary visual area, V1, topographically represents the receptors of the eyes; a primary somatosensory area, S1, represents the receptors of the body; a primary auditory area, A1, represents tone frequencies; and electrical stimulation of a primary motor area, M1, evokes movements.