Useful english dictionary. 2012.
visual image — noun 1. a mental image that is similar to a visual perception • Syn: ↑visualization, ↑visualisation • Derivationally related forms: ↑visualise (for: ↑visualisation), ↑visualize ( … Useful english dictionary
visual illusion — Also known as optical illusion. Both terms are commonly used to denote a visual percept that has its basis in a stimulus derivative of the extra corporeal environment (also referred to as a point de repère) which is either misperceived or… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
visual field — noun all of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment • Syn: ↑field of vision, ↑field of regard • Hypernyms: ↑visual percept, ↑visual image * * * noun, pl ⋯ fields [count] : ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Percept — A perception is a philosophical term which roughly means an individual s observation/perception of something external to one s self; more specifically, the resultant of perceiving. It is the representation of an external event that affected the… … Wikipedia
Visual short term memory — In the study of vision, visual short term memory (VSTM) is one of three broad memory systems including iconic memory and long term memory. VSTM is a type of short term memory, but one limited to information within the visual domain. The term VSTM … Wikipedia
Visual cortex — Brain: Visual cortex View of the brain from behind. Red = Brodmann area 17 (primary visual cortex); orange = area 18; yellow = area 19 … Wikipedia
visual hallucination — Also referred to as vision. Both terms are indebted to the Latin noun visio, which means sight. They are used to denote a hallucination of sight. Historically, visual hallucinations have been divided into a multitude of types. Using their… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
mindblindness — Also known as psychic blindness, soulblindness, and visual agnosia. All four terms are used to denote the inability or diminished ability to process certain aspects of the visual input, resulting, for example, in the inability to recognize… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
eidetic image — Also referred to as eidetic imagery, eidetic phenomenon, mental imagery, imagery, and photographic memory. The adjective eidetic comes from the Greek noun eidos, which means appearance or idea. The term eidetic image was introduced in or… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
apperceptive mindblindness — The German expression apperceptive Seelenbind heit was coined in or shortly before 1890 by the German neurologist Heinrich Lissauer (18611891) to denote the inability to integrate various elements of visual perception into a single coherent… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
