visual cortex
Americannoun
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The team also used pattern visual evoked potentials – a painless test that measured how well signals travelled from the retina to the visual cortex.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
Finding comparable maps in the visual cortex is especially exciting.
From Science Daily • Dec. 23, 2025
"We found not one, or two, but eight remarkably similar maps in the visual cortex!"
From Science Daily • Dec. 23, 2025
But we do know that when you imagine something without actually receiving any visual stimulus from your retina, your primary visual cortex does get activated.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025
In the daylight, the Rezaeis’ house was older and smaller than Mamou’s, the khaki muted enough that I could look at it without sustaining damage to my visual cortex.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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