visual system

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visual system - the sensory system for vision

eye, oculus, optic - the organ of sight

nervus opticus, optic nerve, optic tract, second cranial nerve - the cranial nerve that serves the retina

sensory system - the body's system of sense organs

visual modality, visual sense, vision, sight - the ability to see; the visual faculty

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Keywords: Depression, retina, magnocellular pathway

Retinal nerve fiber layer thickness measurement by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography in patients with major depressive disorder

9) The magnocellular pathway begins at the level of parasol retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) and transmits signals through to the cortex slightly differently to the parvocellular pathway.

How do we perceive a moving world?

In comparing the patients with anisometropic amblyopia and the normal group, both the stimuli of the parvocellular pathway (100% contrast and high spatial frequency as the features of the parvocellular system) and the magnocellular pathway (30% contrast and low spatial frequency as the features of the magnocellular system) showed a significant reduction in the amplitude of the wave.

Comparison of the wave amplitude of visually evoked potential in amblyopic eyes between patients with esotropia and anisometropia and a normal group

4) tend to be most indicative of the magnocellular pathway function (mesopic luminance conditions, lower spatial frequencies).

Differential effects of aging on spatial contrast sensitivity to linear and polar sine-wave gratings

The magnocellular pathway, mediates luminance and achromatic stimuli [24,25].

Comparison of blue-yellow opponent color contrast sensitivity function between female badminton players and non-athletes

Abnormalities in the magnocellular pathway in the visual system.

DEVELOPMENT AND DISORDERS OF NEUROCOGNITIVE SYSTEMS FOR ORAL LANGUAGE AND READING

21,32) It was further hypothesised that these were the retinal ganglion cells that formed part of the magnocellular pathway.