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visual area

n. the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus [syn: visual cortex]

Usage examples of "visual area".

It is possible that the alpha wave represents the state of readiness in which the visual area holds itself when it is being only minimally stimulated.

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.