"Visual Cortex" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Area of the OCCIPITAL LOBE concerned with the processing of visual information relayed via VISUAL PATHWAYS.
| Descriptor ID |
D014793
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211.730.885.287.500.571.735 A08.186.211.730.885.287.500.814.953
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| Concept/Terms |
Striate Cortex- Striate Cortex
- Cortex, Striate
- Visual Cortex Primary
- Cortex Primaries, Visual
- Cortex Primary, Visual
- Primaries, Visual Cortex
- Primary, Visual Cortex
- Visual Cortex Primaries
- Primary Visual Cortex
- Cortex, Primary Visual
- Cortices, Primary Visual
- Primary Visual Cortices
- Visual Cortex, Primary
- Visual Cortices, Primary
Extrastriate Cortex- Extrastriate Cortex
- Cortex, Extrastriate
- Cortices, Extrastriate
- Extrastriate Cortices
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2003 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2005 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2006 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2009 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2013 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2019 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2025 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Visual Cortex" by people in Profiles.
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Inhibitory specificity from a connectomic census of mouse visual cortex. Nature. 2025 Apr; 640(8058):448-458.
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Functional connectomics reveals general wiring rule in mouse visual cortex. Nature. 2025 Apr; 640(8058):459-469.
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Foundation model of neural activity predicts response to new stimulus types. Nature. 2025 Apr; 640(8058):470-477.
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An unsupervised map of excitatory neuron dendritic morphology in the mouse visual cortex. Nat Commun. 2025 Apr 09; 16(1):3361.
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Asymmetric distribution of color-opponent response types across mouse visual cortex supports superior color vision in the sky. Elife. 2024 Sep 05; 12.
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Heterogeneous orientation tuning in the primary visual cortex of mice diverges from Gabor-like receptive fields in primates. Cell Rep. 2024 08 27; 43(8):114639.
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The astrocyte a1A-adrenoreceptor is a key component of the neuromodulatory system in mouse visual cortex. Glia. 2024 Nov; 72(11):1955-1973.
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Diverse task-driven modeling of macaque V4 reveals functional specialization towards semantic tasks. PLoS Comput Biol. 2024 May; 20(5):e1012056.
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State-dependent pupil dilation rapidly shifts visual feature selectivity. Nature. 2022 10; 610(7930):128-134.
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Percepts evoked by multi-electrode stimulation of human visual cortex. Brain Stimul. 2022 Sep-Oct; 15(5):1163-1177.