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extrastriate visual area
Updated on 04/19/2018
any of the visually responsive regions of cerebral cortex that are located outside the primary visual cortex (striate cortex), that is, in the
prestriate cortex
. Extrastriate visual areas include
V2
,
V3
,
V4
, and
V5
.
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