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visuo-|ˈvɪʒjuːəʊ, ˈvɪz-| combining form on Gr. models of L. vīsu-s sight, vision, employed in a few terms, chiefly Anat., as visuo-auditory, visuo-kinæsthetic, visuo-psychic, visuo-sensory, visuo-spatial, visuo-tactual adjs.; visuo-spatially adv.; ˈvisuometer (see quot. 1847 and cf. visometer); ˈvisuomotor a., pertaining to or involving motor activity as guided by or dependent on sight; ˌvisuoˈpsychic a., an epithet of two cortical areas adjacent to the striate cortex, orig. regarded as sites of mental elaboration of visual sense impressions; ˌvisuoˈsensory a., pertaining to or involving the visual perception of sensory signals; spec. an epithet of the striate cortex (see striate a. 2), as the part of the brain that receives sensory nerve impulses from the eye.
1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 445 The other [commissure] conducts impressions from the visual to the auditory word-centre (the *visuo-auditory commissure).
Ibid. VII. 415 Destruction of the *visuo-kinæsthetic commissure.
1847A. Smee Vision in Health & Dis. iii. 37 The adjustment of the exact centre of the glass to the optical centres is so important in practice, that I have contrived an instrument to measure the width accurately between these centres... I have called the instrument itself the *visuometer.
1942Anat. Rec. LXXXIV. 470 (heading) Reestablishment of *visuomotor coordination by optic nerve regeneration. 1972Science 5 May 536/2 This difference could be observed in splitbrain monkeys executing a visuomotor task with one eye covered.
1900Phil. Trans. CXCIII. Ser. B. 168 Measurements taken from the whole of the visuo-sensory area and from the neighbouring *visuo-psychic cortex. 1954S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 12) xxix. 500 A lesion of this vessel thus causes a crossed homonymous hemianopia often with disturbances of the visuopsychic areas. 1980Gray's Anat. (ed. 36) vii. 1010/2 Not only the striate cortex (area 17, visuosensory area), but also the para- and peri-striate areas around it (areas 18 and 19—the ‘visuopsychic’ cortex) receive projection fibres.
1900*Visuo-sensory [see visuo-psychic adj. above]. 1907J. H. Parsons Dis. Eye v. 90 This area, which is the primary visual or visuo-sensory area.., is the cortical projection of the corresponding halves of both retinæ. 1980Visuo-sensory [see visuopsychic adj. above].
1962Jrnl. Speech & Hearing Research Dec. 359/2 Factor 3 is a clear-cut *visuospatial factor. Tests..include matching, copying, drawing, and object-assembly tests. Ibid. 367/1 Visuo-spatial behavior..involved both visual and sensory processes. 1977Lancet 10 Dec. 1227/2 Intelligence tests indicated severe intellectual deterioration on subtests measuring visuospatial perception.
1939Mind XLVIII. 360 We touch surfaces of things optically known to us, and when we pass from one thing to another we leave them *visuo-spatially related behind us.
1932H. H. Price Perception ix. 277 Let us call it a *visuo-tactual solid. 1959J. L. Austin Sense & Sensibilia (1962) ii. 8 Visuo-tactual solids. |