The visual cortex of the brain is the area of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information. It is located in the occipital lobe. Sensory input...
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in the motor cortex, and sight in the visual cortex. The motor cortex is primarily located in the precentral gyrus, and the visual cortex is located in...
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cornea and lens) and the neural system (including the retina and visual cortex). The visual system performs a number of complex tasks based on the image forming...
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early visual cortex activity relative to the whole brain activity measured by fMRI. These results show that individual differences in the visual imagery...
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Mental image (redirect from Visual imagery)
left or right, activation begins in the visual association cortex, the parietal cortex, and the prefrontal cortex—all higher cognitive processing centers...
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Occipital lobe (redirect from Occipital cortex)
is the visual processing center of the mammalian brain containing most of the anatomical region of the visual cortex. The primary visual cortex is Brodmann...
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with visual snow syndrome. In September 2021, two studies found white matter alterations in parts of the visual cortex and outside the visual cortex in...
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stream have a more inferior location in the temporal cortex, whereas areas specialized for the visual-spatial location of objects in the dorsal stream have...
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Sensory nervous system (section Visual cortex)
somatosensory cortex. The visual cortex is the part of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information. Processing in the visual cortex starts in the...
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signals to the primary visual cortex, also called striate cortex. Extrastriate cortex, also called visual association cortex is a set of cortical structures...
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the nasal visual field of both eyes cross over to the opposite side)→Optic tract→Lateral geniculate body→Optic radiation→Primary visual cortex The type...
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extrastriate cortex is the region of the occipital cortex of the mammalian brain located next to the primary visual cortex. Primary visual cortex (V1) is also...
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Hyperphantasia (category Visual perception)
early visual cortex and the frontal cortex. Recent research has shown the relationship between the size (surface area) of the early visual cortex (V1-V3)...
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the visual cortex of the brain. The visual cortex is located in the occipital lobe of the brain and harbors many other structures that aid in visual recognition...
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perception, and the visual cortex (the locus of visual hallucinations). Compelling evidence details the role homeostatic operations in the cortex play in regards...
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respond to visual stimuli that they do not consciously see due to lesions in the primary visual cortex, also known as the striate cortex or Brodmann...
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Receptive field (section Visual cortex)
particular cell will respond. In the case of binocular neurons in the visual cortex, receptive fields do not extend to optical infinity. Instead, they are...
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Two-streams hypothesis (redirect from Dorsal visual stream)
space. The dorsal stream projects from the primary visual cortex to the posterior parietal cortex. It was initially termed the "where" pathway since it...
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Aphantasia (redirect from Visual irreminiscence)
with visual imagery, this time by indirectly measuring cortical excitability in the primary visual cortex (V1). In 2018, a study analyzing the visual working...
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Electro-physiological recordings in retinal ganglion cells, LGN and primary visual cortex showed that neurons of these areas responded to luminance modulation...
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in the performance of the eye or the first processing steps in the visual cortex, it does not make sense to refer to the absolute size of a viewed object...
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Colour centre (redirect from Prestriate cortex)
labelled visual area 4 (V4). The exact mechanisms, location, and function of V4 are still being investigated. The primary part of the visual cortex, (V1)...
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visual hallucinations – serotonin and acetylcholine. They are concentrated in the visual thalamic nuclei and visual cortex. The similarity of visual hallucinations...
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diverges into two visual pathways, the geniculostriate pathway and the tectopulvinar pathway, which send visual information to the visual cortex of the occipital...
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Phosphene (category Visual system)
electrical, or magnetic stimulation of the retina or visual cortex, or by random firing of cells in the visual system. Phosphenes have also been reported by...
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are served by the primary visual cortex, the primary auditory cortex, and primary somatosensory cortex. The cerebellar cortex is the thin gray surface...
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Aura (symptom) (redirect from Visual aura)
consciousness. The aura of migraine is visual in the vast majority of cases, because dysfunction starts from the visual cortex. The aura is usually followed,...
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cortex; area 4 is the primary motor cortex; area 17 is the primary visual cortex; and areas 41 and 42 correspond closely to primary auditory cortex....
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to surgery. The visual cortex is the part of the cerebral cortex in the posterior part of the brain responsible for processing visual stimuli, called...
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auditory and visual systems but can cause reorganization in tactile and olfactory systems too. In people who are blind, the visual cortex is still in active...
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