VISUAL CORTEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does visual cortex mean? 

• VISUAL CORTEX (noun)
  The noun VISUAL CORTEX has 1 sense:

1. the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus

  Familiarity information: VISUAL CORTEX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISUAL CORTEX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

visual area; visual cortex

Hypernyms ("visual cortex" is a kind of...):

cortical area; cortical region (any of various regions of the cerebral cortex)

 Context examples 

Each step is handled by different parts of the brain, from the eye’s light-sensing retina to the visual cortex and the superior colliculus.

(Researchers discover neural code that predicts behavior, National Institutes of Health)

One region, in the visual cortex, encoded images, while a region in the prefrontal cortex signaled their category membership.

(How does the brain learn categorization for sounds? The same way it does for images, National Science Foundation)

The brain activity rhythms in the visual cortex followed the rhythms of sign language.

(The Rhythms of Sign Language, NSF)

Some of the brain areas close to the visual cortex, which deciphers visual images, tracked how human-like the images were, by changing their activity the more human-like an artificial agent became – in a sense, creating a spectrum of ‘human-likeness’.

(Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain, University of Cambridge)

While the natural rhythms in spoken language are similar to what might be considered the preferred frequency for the auditory cortex, this is not true for sign language and the visual cortex.

(The Rhythms of Sign Language, NSF)