occipital cortex

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occipital
adjective
uk
/ɒkˈsɪp.ɪ.təl/us
/ɑːkˈsɪp.ɪ.t̬əl/
relating to the occipital area (= the lower back part of ...
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cortex
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɔː.teks/us
/ˈkɔːr.teks/
the outer layer, especially of the brain and ...
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This is in parallel with our psychophysical observations, because perceptual anomalies and visual hallucinations may have a common neurophysiological background in theoccipitalcortex.
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For this, a stainless steel cylindrical chamber was attached to the skull covering theoccipitalcortexfollowing the surgical procedures stated above.
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Increases in dendritic length inoccipitalcortexafter 4 days of differential housing in weanling rats.
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More slowly maturing brain regions such as frontal cortex have a longer window of vulnerability than more rapidly maturing ones, such as theoccipitalcortex.
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A block of theoccipitalcortexwas then removed and placed into a solution of sucrose and formalin for subsequent frozen sectioning.
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Expression of the immediate early gene zif-268 influenced by brief exposure to environmental complexity in theoccipitalcortexof weanling rats.
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In this case, sustained activity near the junction of parietal andoccipitalcortexdid not begin until presentation of the stimulus sequence was complete.
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Object-related activity revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging in the humanoccipitalcortex.
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The animal was then placed in a stereotaxic frame and a craniotomy was made aboveoccipitalcortex.
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During attentional processing, the controls subjects activated a typical network of superior parietal, frontal, and temporal areas while the autistic subjects activated only bilateral ventraloccipitalcortex.
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For example, the neuroimaging literature would predict neuronal defects that are more apparent in prefrontal and higher order temporal regions but less apparent inoccipitalcortex.
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Specific pre-target oscillatory (alpha rhythms) and transient activities occurring in posterior-lateral parietal cortex andoccipitalcortexalso characterise express saccades.
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Once again, the neural regions implicated in this study included the intraparietal sulcus, the precentral sulcus, and the lateraloccipitalcortex.
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The posterior circulation supplies blood to the medulla, cerebellum, pons, midbrain, thalamus, andoccipitalcortex(responsible for vision).
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For example, regions in theoccipitalcortexare tied to vision and those on the superior temporal gyrus are recipients of auditory inputs.
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It specifically indicates that theoccipitalcortexis unable to correctly process and interpret the intact input coming from the retinas.
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These were the posterior cingulate, medial prefrontal cortex, and theoccipitalcortex.
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A recent study provided some of the first direct evidence of color-specific processing in the ventraloccipitalcortex.
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Another study has demonstrated that a color hallucination suggestion given to subjects in hypnosis activated color-processing regions of theoccipitalcortex.
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The results indicated that both fear and disgust stimulus categories resulted in activations in theoccipitalcortex, prefrontal cortex and in the amygdala.
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