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visual projection area

 
Sci-Tech Dictionary: visual projection area
(′vizh·ə·wəl prə′jek·shən ′er·ē·ə)

(neuroscience) The receptive center for visual images in the cortex of the brain, located in the walls and margins of the calcarine sulcus of the occipital lobe. Also known as Brodmann's area 17.


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