#visual cortex

Neuroanatomy and eye visual information to thalamus

Gulcneate cell to thalamus to photo receptors to visual cortex from the retina is where the process begins after the light is hit or absorbed by it.

The visual cortex and chemical receptors work along the nerves and give the visual information that is required for the person and significantly it is viewed only with the visible light.

The chemical receptors involving several reactions can make it work with retina, cornea and with the cerebral connection.

The process goes with the trans retinal from cis retinal and simultaneous change in the molecular arrangement, typically it relies on the mechanism of isomerisation & the photo transduction.

And there lies an explanation with the psychological model of visual information and the chemical receptors that are involved in it to process the vision. And more than 3 visual cortex situated in the brain during the process from transformation from trans retinal to the cortex in the brain.

And speaking of chemical receptors from scholarly angle, the rod and cones react to the light.

I had a very silly and funny answer to this question way back in 2009 (and I have talked about it on tumblr), but now that I think about it, I probably don't actually look that much like Billy Corgan.

For one thing, I don't think my face has the "hard masculinity" of Corgan's. I often have a boyish face, to the point where I feel that I don't "look like a boy" because I look "too androgynous" for that, which is a weird feeling. For another thing, I don't think I look as much like a rock star. I guess I have the hair and the dark eyebrows, but the only thing I have in common with Corgan in terms of facial hair is that I am rapidly losing mine.

And lastly, I am incredibly not like Billy Corgan inside. I kind of feel like I should be making a longer post about this topic, but basically, I don't think there is one person who "looks like" Billy Corgan "on the inside" more than I do.

… I'm getting a lot of troll messages now, aren't I? God, I'm sorry if I'm so juvenile sounding. No one likes hearing how over-the-top or self-centered they sound, I guess. And I hate when people post stuff like "the world revolves around me, because I have feelings and thoughts and am in fact a person!" But I am a person, so if I say things like that, well, they're kind of true in a weird sense. I'm going to be a little vain here, but for the record, my face kind of looks like this – a little androgynous, a little boyish, according to the people who have seen it. I'm in no way as bad as some of the people who sent you troll messages – I'm not a like a serial killer or anything – I'm just one of those people who has a lot of feelings, which is why I am the way I am. I'm sorry, I'm probably going to try to be really as succinct as possible in the future, I know I'm being bad.

Meets the Eye

Before take-off pilots make careful checks, testing out machinery and circuits that will soon fire into action. In these developing mouse brains, something similar is happening just before birth. On the left, a region in a mouse’s brain called the superior colliculus lights up (highlighted in rainbow colours) with waves of activity – it’s received impulses from its eyes. But at this delicate stage in development, these visual 'messages' from the retina often mingle with somatosensory signals, involved perceiving touch and pain. This brief “hello” from the eyes is enough to establish distinct visual connections that will last a lifetime – defining the visual cortex as separate from neighbouring sensory connections. Blocking this ordered separation of signals (in the mouse on the right) may lead to developmental problems before and after birth and could shed like on human conditions involving altered perception.

Written by John Ankers

Image from work by Teresa Guillamón-Vivancos and colleagues

Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández–Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (UMH-CSIC), San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Image copyright held by the original authors

Research published in Science, August 2022

Surprise Discovery Reveals Second Visual System in Cerebral Cortex: Mouse Study

"This undermines the whole concept of the visual system in mammalian cortex as a perfect hierarchy with V1 as the gatekeeper and raises a multitude of questions, including how these two parallel visual systems evolved and how they cooperate to produce a unified visual experience."

A seven-year-old Australian boy who is missing most of his visual cortex has surprised doctors by being able to see well enough to recognise faces and play soccer - the first known case of its kind.

In spite of suffering a significant brain injury when he was a newborn, the biggest problem the boy, referred to only as "B.I.", has with his vision is he's a little near-sighted, showing once again just how amazingly flexible our grey matter is.