visual perception
11Visual cortex — Brain: Visual cortex View of the brain from behind. Red = Brodmann area 17 (primary visual cortex); orange = area 18; yellow = area 19 …
12Visual 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… …
13Visual acuity — 20/15 and 20/15 vision redirect here. For other uses, see 2020 (disambiguation). Typical Snellen chart used for visual acuity testing. Visual acuity (VA) is acuteness or clearness of vision, which is dependent on the sharpness of the retinal… …
14visual illusion — Also known as optical illusion. Both terms are commonly used to denote a visual percept that has its basis in a stimulus derivative of the extra corporeal environment (also referred to as a point de repère) which is either misperceived or… …
15Visual memory — Close up of the human eye, where vision begins. Visual memory describes the relationship between perceptual processing and the encoding, storage and retrieval of the resulting neural representations. Visual memory occurs over a broad time range… …
16visual allachaesthesia — Also known as optical allachaesthesia, optical alloaesthesia, and fata morgana of the visual sphere. The first three expressions are indebted to the Greek words attache (elsewhere) and aisthanesthai (to notice, to perceive). They translate… …
17visual image — noun 1. a mental image that is similar to a visual perception • Syn: ↑visualization, ↑visualisation • Derivationally related forms: ↑visualise (for: ↑visualisation), ↑visualize ( …
18perception — The faculty of acquiring sensory experience. Study of the processes by which we gather and interpret visual information is largely the province of social psychologists, who have identified several general principles (‘laws’) of perception, and… …
19visual aura — Formerly known as suffusio. The term visual aura is indebted to the Greek noun aura, which means wind, breeze, or smell. It is used to denote an *aura experienced in the visual modality. The earliest known written account of a visual aura… …
20Perception figure-fond — La perception figure fond est un principe de psychologie gestaltiste et de linguistique cognitive selon lequel nous faisons une distinction entre la figure, qui se détache et qui possède un contour défini, et le fond moins distinct. Toute… …
