NOUN
- the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus
How To Use visual cortex In A Sentence
- This is a condition in which subjects have had a portion of their primary visual cortex destroyed, and apparently become blind in a region of their visual field as a result.
- But for the visual cortex, light flashes work pretty well.
- What is their relationship to the visual cortex?
- We have already seen that there are cells in the visual cortex that recognize edges.
- A completely unconscious person with a functional visual system can show reflexes like pupillary contraction, and brain activity that corresponds correctly to external stimuli can be recorded in the visual cortex. Hey Dr. Egnor: At Least Galen Dissected Animals, Not Straw Men - The Panda's Thumb
- Line, too, is processed in one particular part of the visual cortex. Times, Sunday Times
- Professor (Nilli) Lavie said: Because the parietal lobe is not part of the visual cortex it was at first surprising to find that activity in the parietal lobe is critical for visual awareness. Boing Boing
- A stroke subsequently damaging the visual area in a female blind from birth, destroyed her ability to read Braille by touch; clearly her visual cortex had earlier been recruited for tactual processing.
- The strongest evidence for such a contribution comes from studying the effects of removal of the primary visual cortex.
- The only normal areas are the visual cortex and those at the back of the brain that store memories. Times, Sunday Times
