visual field
noun
: the entire expanse of space visible at a given instant without moving the eyes
called also field of vision
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But a dog’s visual field is limited to what the dog sees sitting on the car seat.
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Marlene Cimons, Washington Post, 29 June 2024
For some, the word stream appeared at the bottom of their visual field like film subtitles.
—Emily Makowski, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2024
It’s designed to run convolutional networks that identify objects in the visual field and also to use a different type of algorithm, called a recurrent neural network.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2016
How can the left hemisphere of the brain respond to stimuli presented in the wrong (left) visual field?
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2017
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Marlene Cimons, Washington Post, 29 June 2024
For some, the word stream appeared at the bottom of their visual field like film subtitles.
—Emily Makowski, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2024
It’s designed to run convolutional networks that identify objects in the visual field and also to use a different type of algorithm, called a recurrent neural network.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2016
How can the left hemisphere of the brain respond to stimuli presented in the wrong (left) visual field?
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2017
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“Visual field.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/visual%20field. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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