Sentences with phrase «relay visual information»
Bipolar cells relay the visual information from photoreceptors to the inner retina for further processing.
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The Thalamus not only relays visual signals from the eye to the visual cortex as previously thought, but also conveys additional, contextual information.
In contrast, the thalamus has until now been considered mostly as a relay for visual information.
When they tracked the cells» axons from the eye into the brain, they saw that many of them terminated in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), the first relay station in the brain for visual information.
Sure enough, the two dyes oozed along different sets of neurons and met in the thalamus, a relay station for visual information deep in the brain.
Such technologies generally use a camera to detect visual information that is relayed to an implant inside the eye, which effectively replaces the damaged photoreceptors.
The idea is that a video camera mounted on a pair of glasses picks up visual information and relays it to the photovoltaic implant using a beam of low - intensity infrared light.
When photoreceptors in the retina of the eye detect light, they relay the information toward the brain's primary visual cortex for image processing.