visual area V4 en · NOUN
Meanings
- (uncountable) A mid-tier brain region in the ventral visual pathway, essential for processing complex visual features like color, texture, shape, and motion, playing a key role in object recognition, figure-ground segregation, and visual attention, bridging early visual areas with higher-level processing centers like the inferotemporal cortex.
Forms
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