Sentences with phrase «visual areas»

That's important because there's a huge variability — up to 300 percent — in the sizes of the primary visual areas of humans.

They then measured the size of the higher order visual areas.

We get notes about various special effects and different visual areas.

These rapid movements quickly distract your interviewer since they are hard to ignore in the small visual area of a computer screen.

Damage to visual areas of the cerebral cortex, for example, can produce strange deficits limited to visual awareness.

But not all investigators agree that dream imagery originates in visual areas.

Blind human echolocators use visual areas of the brain.»

About a decade ago, O'Leary's research group discovered that a gene called Emx2 controlled the size of the primary visual area of the neocortex.

Additionally, the researchers found that lower and higher visual areas in the brain were better at decoding respective layers of the DNN, revealing a homology between the human brain and the neural network.

Claims for the perceptual reality of synesthetic colors have been bolstered by recent functional brain imaging studies by researchers in the U. K. showing that synesthetic color activates central visual areas of the brain thought to be involved in perceiving real colors.

I think they accepted you could do that in the early visual areas of the brain, but to go so far away from the early stages of sensory processing and look at neural correlates in the hippocampus raised a lot of skepticism.

«Even the primary visual cortex, the first visual area of the brain that registers input from the eyes, is activated by imagery with the eyes closed.

The Geniculocalcarine Pathway in Man, and some Putative Visual areas Involved in Visuo - spatial Attention.In: The Functional Organization of Human Visual Cortex.

The Geniculocalcarine Pathway in Man, and some Putative Visual areas Involved in Visuo - spatial Attention.

He studied functional circuit processing throughout the visual system, including thalamus, primary visual cortex and extrastriate visual areas using in vivo two - photon imaging, calcium sensors and viral tracers.

In the 1980s, intrigued by the work of Professor Wolfe, Professor Norman Boyd teamed up with Professor Martin Yaffe to develop Cumulus, a semi-automated density software based on visual area based density assessment.

The recruitment of visual areas for auditory tasks is sometimes thought to underlie the better performance in processing inputs from other senses observed in congenitally blind people.

Zembrzycki and O'Leary turned up or down the activity of Emx2 in mice to make the primary visual areas larger or smaller.

«Finding that the parietal cortex was involved was surprising because it has not been a traditional visual area,» Lavie says.

With weak normalization, people with autism would be expected to have greater neural responses in motion - selective visual areas, which could improve motion perception.

Unequal Representation of Cardinal vs. Oblique Orientations in the Middle Temporal Visual Area.

This fundamental organization of the visual cortex was even found in people whose eyes did not develop normally, suggesting normal eye development may not be necessary for the establishment of large - scale functional connectivity network mapping in the most fundamental visual areas like V1, the primary visual cortex.

Paus's TMS / PET study confirmed that humans also have this connection, by showing that a small TMS pulse in the eye field also activated distant visual areas.

«There's lots more activity in our secondary visual area, where the higher - order visualization is, even more active than when we're awake.»

Each year, Cuadro assembles a substantial curatorial program in four distinct visual areas of interest: Painting, Paper, Photography, and Sculpture.

Well, the reason why you are opting for a 6 ″ device is because you want more visual area, so Asus is giving you what you want.

Take advantage of this highly visual area to send your holiday greetings as well as show off your personality and style.

«Since the size of the primary area and size of the higher order areas are linked we expect that these people also have larger high order visual areas and that's what helping them see the illusion clearly,» says Zembrzycki.

Noisier signals arriving in higher visual areas may be harder to interpret, distracting the brain from the target and so making it more difficult to detect.

One of its two components, the fovea, or central visual area, can track motion very well.

«It may be that the signals coming from the early visual areas are «noisier»,» she says.

«The primary visual cortex, the first visual area of the brain that registers input from the eyes, is even activated by imagery with the eyes closed.

It is only when parts of these different visual areas are damaged, causing selective yet often profound disturbances in perception, that we begin to appreciate the range and subtlety of normal human vision.

Recently, scientists discovered that people with smaller primary visual areas were fooled more often and more strongly by optical illusions.

So pinpointing these differences in visual areas might reveal important details about processing in brain regions related to social functioning and language, which are not as well understood.

It makes sense developmentally: Your child's fingers are still better suited for throwing balls than tying shoelaces, because the fine motor and visual areas of her brain aren't fully developed yet.

In the full - term infants, brain activity was detected in the visual areas of the brain even when the image didn't appear as expected, a sign of this top - down sensory prediction.

«Brief postnatal blindness triggers long - lasting reorganization in the brain: Temporary visual deprivation shortly after birth induces permanent auditory responses in the visual area of the brain, highlighting a crossmodal competition for brain territories during the early sensitive period of brain development.»

The spontaneous activity from PGO waves may start in the visual areas of the brain but ultimately creates a cascade of activity that taps into the brain regions that house memories.

Likewise, the larger your primary visual area, the better you are at interpreting optical illusions.

When you stare in puzzlement at an optical illusion, two distinct parts of the neocortex in your brain are hard at work: the primary visual cortex is receiving information on what your eyes see, and the surrounding higher order visual areas are trying to interpret that tricky amalgam of information.

The 30 visual areas we spoke of are shared between these pathways.

And thus we can begin to explain the unusual perceptions of GY and John, by examining their particular deficits in terms of our detailed knowledge of the visual areas and their connections and evolutionary origins.

Anatomical and physiological observations in monkeys indicate that the primate visual system consists of several separate and independent subdivisions that analyze different aspects of the same retinal image: cells in cortical visual areas 1 and 2 and higher visual areas are segregated into three interdigitating subdivisions that differ in their selectivity for color, stereopsis, movement, and orientation.

In new research published, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in Germany and the USA show that the way in which the brain organizes its visual sense remains intact even in people who are blind from birth, and that at least the pattern of functional connectivity between the visual area and the topographical representation of space (up / down, left / right, etc.) can develop on its own without any actual visual experience.

The visual areas were thought to be «tipped off» ahead of time that the jumping image on the retina was caused by eyes moving and not by the world moving.