area V4

A form of visual area v4 — 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.

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Meanings

area V41

nounarea V4 (uncountable)
  1. abbreviationellipsisuncountableEllipsis of visual area V4.

Area V42

nounArea V4 (plural Area V4s)

plural Area V4s

  1. Alternative letter-case form of area V4.
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