Phrase guide

Visual area V4

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

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noun

Meaning 1

Alternative letter-case form of visual area V4

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, uncountable

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noun

Meaning 2

Alternative letter-case form of visual area V4.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of

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noun

Meaning 3

A mid-tier brain region in the ventral visual pathway, essential for processing complex visual features like color, texture, shape, and motion, playing a key role in object recognition, figure-ground segregation, and visual attention, bridging early visual areas with higher-level processing centers like the inferotemporal cortex.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: V4

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History

Etymology

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