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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The regions affected in boys’ brains are involved in processing objects in the visual field as well as faces.
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Kristen Rogers, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
But a dog’s visual field is limited to what the dog sees sitting on the car seat.
—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
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Kristen Rogers, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
But a dog’s visual field is limited to what the dog sees sitting on the car seat.
—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
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“Visual field.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/visual%20field. Accessed 22 Sep. 2024.
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