Visual area V5, also known as visual area MT (middle temporal), is a region of extrastriate visual cortex that is thought to play a major role in the perception of motion, the integration of local motion signals into global percepts, and the guidance of some eye movements. === Connections === MT is connected to a wide array of cortical and subcort...
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(from the article `eye, human`) The optic tract fibres make synapses with nerve cells in the respective layers of the lateral geniculate body, and the axons of these third-order ... The area of the brain concerned with vision makes up the entire occipital lobe and the posterior parts of the temporal and parietal lobes. The ... ...the...
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The part of the brain that detects the forms of objects, brightness of the individual parts of the objects, shading, and spatial organization of the visual scene.
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Area of the occipital lobe concerned with vision. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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the area of the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex concerned with vision; the striate cortex is also called the first visual area, and the adjacent second and third visual areas serve as its association areas.
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Part of our brain situated just above our neck that allows us to experience vision. Information from the optic nerve from our left eye goes to our right visual cortex, and optic nerve from our right eye to our left visual cortex. The two optic nerves cross over in the middle of our brain at the optic chiasma. Getting a knock on the back of the head...
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. the region of the cerebral cortex occupying the entire surface of the occipital lobe, and composed of Brodmann areas 17-19. Brodmann area 17 (which is also called striate cortex or area because the line of Gennari is grossly visible on its surface) is the primary visual cortex, receiving the visual radiation from the late...
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located in the occipital lobe; involved in detection of simple visual stimuli
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The region of the occipital lobes in which visual information is processed.
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