primary visual area

Damage to the primary visual areas of the occipital lobe can leave a person with partial or complete blindness.

Thus, in a normal human brain, the optic nerve is an inborn scaffold connected to the primary visual area.

Cells in primary visual areas are specialized for detecting edges and contours in normal vision, he said.

Nevertheless, some optimists continue to refer to the primary visual area in the rat as 'striate' cortex.

Exposing rat cortex to the same stain produces uniform, moderately dense, labelling in the primary visual area.

For exmple primary visual area, V1, or primary somatosensory area, S1.

These specialized cells are draped across the primary visual area in a somewhat splotchy fashion that resembles a bunch of pinwheels.

Kittens that had one eye kept closed after birth did not develop the usual connections between that eye and the primary visual area of the brain.

After a ferret or human is born, cells in the brain's primary visual area become highly specialized for analyzing the orientation of lines found in images or shapes.

Dorsal V3 is normally considered to be part of the dorsal stream, receiving inputs from V2 and from the primary visual area and projecting to the posterior parietal cortex.

We can tell that the primary visual areas in rats and monkeys come from the same primordial tissue in the embryonic nervous system, but this isn't surprising since all of the cortex arises from this same region.

Most of me is housed in the structure you see on the small island several hundred metres from here, and what happened to you, was a schizoid seizure, located in some of the more recently regenerated parts of the primary visual area, resulting in a computational snowstorm.