visual area V4

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Noun

visual area V4 (uncountable)

  1. (anatomy) 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.
    Synonym: V4
    Hyponym: V4α

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