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Visual Cortex

Known as: Cortex, Visual, cortex visual 
Area of the OCCIPITAL LOBE concerned with the processing of visual information relayed via VISUAL PATHWAYS.
National Institutes of Health

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17 relations
AmblyopiaBlood supply aspectsColor VisionDepth Perception

Narrower (2)

Area striata structureExtrastriate Cortex

Broader (4)

Cortex of occipital lobeOccipital lobeVisual systemsensory cortex

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Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Development of blobs in the visual cortex of macaques
We have examined the area of the primary visual cortex and the number and size of blobs within it in 10 neonatal and 11 adult… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Elevated frontal cerebral blood flow in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: A 99Tcm-HMPAO SPECT study
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Parvalbumin in the monkey striate cortex: a quantitative immunoelectron-microscopy study
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Ontogenetic changes in the cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate- stimulatable phosphorylation of cat visual cortex proteins, particularly of microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP 2): effects of…
Based on a theory that a norepinephrine-stimulated cascade of events resulting in an increase of intracellular cyclic adenosine 3… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Background and stimulus-induced patterns of high metabolic activity in the visual cortex (area 17) of the squirrel and macaque monkey
We have used 2-deoxy-D-[14C]glucose (2-DG) autoradiography and cytochrome oxidase histochemistry to examine background and… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Restoration of focal multiple innervation in rat muscles by transmission block during a critical stage of development
1. The soleus, extensor digitorum longus and peroneus tertius muscles of the hind leg were paralysed by botulinum toxin injection… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Directional tuning of complex cells in area 17 of the feline visual cortex
1. Directional tuning for motion of a field of static visual noise and for motion of bar stimuli against the same stationary… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
An aberrant crossed visual corticotectal pathway in albino rats
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Development of the extrinsic connections of the visual cortex in the cat
Lesions were made in the visual system in a series of kittens, and fiber degeneration stained by the Eager or Fink‐Heimer methods… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Interaction effects of visual contours on the discharge frequency of simple striate neurones
1. The discharge frequency of simple neurones in the cat striate cortex responding to the two edges of a slit of light moving… 
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