visual cortex; visual area of the brain
Neuroscience term for the part of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information.
The visual cortex is located in the occipital lobe.
We measured activity in the visual cortex using fMRI.
後頭葉 is the occipital lobe, which contains the primary visual cortex.
Compound of 視覚 (vision) and 野 (field, area), a calque from Western neuroscience terminology.