first visual area

Questions about first visual area

What does first visual area mean?

first visual area means "the part of the occipital cortex that receives the fibers of the optic radiation from the lateral geniculate body and is the primary receptive area for vision".

What is another word for first visual area?

Close synonyms include striate cortex, striate area, area 17 of Brodmann, Brodmann's area 17. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is first visual area a common word?

first visual area is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for first visual area come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.