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.

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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