visual area


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Noun1.visual area - the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus
cortical area, cortical region - any of various regions of the cerebral cortex
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Several common approach limitations exist due to penetrations of the approach visual area by obstacles.
"Structure and function of visual area MT," Annual Review of Neuroscience, vol.
When participants were presented with real-face and face-pareidolia images in the present study, activation was observed in the occipitotemporal cortices (lower visual area), followed by the FFA, and then, one aspect of the PFCX (higher visual area) became active.
An experiment by Matthias Ekman and fellow researchers from Radboud University's Donders Institute shows that the primary visual cortex, the main visual area of our brain, is not only involved in perceiving the car, but also in predicting its future locations.
Instead, it's likely a tree or other obstruction has penetrated some portion of the approach's visual area surface, a component of instrument approach approval and design.
For example, the brain can be stimulated by applying external magnetic pulses to the head area corresponding to the visual area. In this case, at the pulse application, the patient can see a series of colored lights.
The professional solution provides objects that will render each visual area of the product such as Apps menu, Windows 8 User Interface, and user interface design.
His mantra for success is that he never stops learning, he said, adding, "There is Greek saying which goes 'I grow older always being taught' and I believe and follow that." The man who has sold more than 25 million albums globally, said for him, the "music lives in the auditory area and not the visual area." Yanni said, "My music memory is very strong.
When listening to taunting laughter, there was a stronger connection between the auditory and "mentalising" areas of the brain, but during joyous laughter, the visual area was more active.