The part of the cerebral cortex that receives and processes sensory nerve impulses from the eyes.
Example sentencesExamples
- There is a posterior region of the cerebral cortex in monkeys and humans in front of the visual cortex that is critical for sensory-motor integration.
- Look at the optic nerve that connects the retina of your eye to the visual cortex of your brain.
- The researchers monitored 21 nerve cells in the visual cortex of four cats.
- In the lateral geniculate nucleus, as in the visual cortex, the neurons are arranged in layers.
- The occipital cortex - the visual cortex at the back of the head - gets excitatory input and begins to fire excessively.