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  2. Frontal eye fields - Wikipedia

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    Brodmann area 8. The frontal eye fields (FEF) are a region located in the frontal cortex, more specifically in Brodmann area 8 or BA8, [1] of the primate brain.In humans, it can be more accurately said to lie in a region around the intersection of the middle frontal gyrus with the precentral gyrus, consisting of a frontal and parietal portion. [2]

  3. Visual cortex - Wikipedia

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    The primary visual cortex, which is defined by its function or stage in the visual system, is approximately equivalent to the striate cortex, also known as Brodmann area 17, which is defined by its anatomical location. The name "striate cortex" is derived from the line of Gennari, a distinctive stripe visible to the naked eye that represents ...

  4. Brodmann area 8 - Wikipedia

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    Brodmann area 8, or BA8, is part of the frontal cortex in the human brain. Situated just anterior to the premotor cortex , it includes the frontal eye fields (so-named because they are believed to play an important role in the control of eye movements). Damage to this area, by stroke, trauma or infection, causes tonic deviation of the eyes ...

  5. Visual system - Wikipedia

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    It creates a bottom-up saliency map of the visual field to guide attention or eye gaze to salient visual locations. [35] [clarification needed] Hence selection of visual input information by attention starts at V1 [36] along the visual pathway. Visual information then flows through a cortical hierarchy. These areas include V2, V3, V4 and area ...

  6. Brodmann area - Wikipedia

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    The primary visual cortex (Brodmann area 17), which is the main recipient of direct input from the visual part of the thalamus, contains many neurons that are most easily activated by edges with a particular orientation moving across a particular point in the visual field.

  7. Cortical magnification - Wikipedia

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    In neuroscience, cortical magnification describes how many neurons in an area of the visual cortex are 'responsible' for processing a stimulus of a given size, as a function of visual field location. [ a ] In the center of the visual field, corresponding to the center of the fovea of the retina , a very large number of neurons process ...

  8. Orientation column - Wikipedia

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    These columns are located in the primary visual cortex (V1) and span multiple cortical layers. The geometry of the orientation columns are arranged in slabs that are perpendicular to the surface of the primary visual cortex. [1] [2] The primary visual cortex (V1) is located in the occipital lobe. This is the region where orientation columns are ...

  9. Retinotopy - Wikipedia

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    Location and visuotopic organization of marmoset primary visual cortex (V1) Retinotopy mapping shapes the folding of the cerebral cortex . In both the V1 and V2 areas of macaques and humans the vertical meridian of their visual field tends to be represented on the cerebral cortex's convex gyri folds whereas the horizontal meridian tends to be ...