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21Visual modularity — In cognitive neuroscience, visual modularity is an organizational concept concerning how vision works. The way in which the primate visual system operates is currently under intense scientific scrutiny. One dominant thesis is that different… …
22Hubel , David Hunter — (1926–) Canadian–American neurophysiologist Born in Windsor, Ontario, Hubel was educated at McGill University and then worked at the Montreal Neurological Institute. He moved to America in 1954 and after working at Johns Hopkins joined the… …
23Visual system — The visual system includes the eyes, the connecting pathways through to the visual cortex and other parts of the brain. The illustration shows the mammalian system. The visual system is the part of the central nervous system which enables… …
24Occipital lobe — Brain: Occipital lobe Frontal lobe Temporal lobe …
25geometric hallucination — Also known as geometrical hallucination, geometric visual hallucination, and optogeometric illusion. All four terms can be traced to the Greek noun geometria, which means land surveying. They are used to denote a * formed visual hallucination… …
26radiation — 1. The act or condition of diverging in all directions from a center. 2. The sending forth of light, short radio waves, ultraviolet or x rays, or any other rays for treatment or diagnosis or for other purpose. Cf.:irradiation (2). 3. SYN:… …
27cortical area — noun any of various regions of the cerebral cortex • Syn: ↑cortical region • Hypernyms: ↑area, ↑region • Hyponyms: ↑association area, ↑association cortex, ↑ …
28cortical region — noun any of various regions of the cerebral cortex • Syn: ↑cortical area • Hypernyms: ↑area, ↑region • Hyponyms: ↑association area, ↑association cortex, ↑ …
29Nicholas Humphrey — For the Australian author, see Nicholas Humphrey (author). Nicholas Humphrey Nicholas Humphrey Born …
30Trk receptor — Trk receptors are a family of tyrosine kinases that regulates synaptic strength and plasticity in the mammalian nervous system.cite journal |author=Huang EJ, Reichardt LF |title=Trk receptors: roles in neuronal signal transduction |journal=Annu.… …
