How to Use visual field in a Sentence
visual field
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Why is the visual field so connected to this brain state?
—Jessica Wapner, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2020
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Babies seem to prefer to keep their mother in the left visual field, too.
—Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
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This corresponds to a tiny circular region of the visual field, the size of a small coin at arm’s length.
—Nick Chater, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2018
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That magnetic pulse caused a flash of light (a phosphene) in the receiver’s visual field of the receiver as a cue to turn the block.
—Robert Martone, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2019
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Most arthropods, for instance, respond to a looming threat based on how big the blob in their visual field is.
—Tom Siegfried, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
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And, because of the geometry of this area of the brain, the researchers can control where the flashes of light appear in the visual field.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2020
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The light also has to take up a lot of the person’s visual field — a little light in the distance isn’t going to be a problem, Dr. French added.
—Amanda Svachula, New York Times, 18 June 2018
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One afternoon, the sparkles were followed by a burst of bright white light, like a flash from an old-fashioned camera, smack in the middle of his visual field.
—Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 16 June 2021
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The special goggles take in the visual field and translate that into amber points light that could trigger the opsin in the patient’s ganglion cells, and send a signal to the brain.
—Caroline Seydel, Forbes, 14 June 2021
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The two-dimensional screens compose a visual field corresponding to the amorphous white space through which the dancers move.
—Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 5 June 2018
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In Active Speaker mode, the person talking floods the visual field; the screen becomes a stage for our temporary overlord.
—Laurence Scott, Wired, 1 June 2020
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This is a primitive and ancient mechanism by which stress controls the visual field.
—Jessica Wapner, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2020
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Notice that little or none of this is present in the visual bursts (which are in color, large and detailed, and in the center of the visual field): the ramp of the museum, the people playing with cards, and the Godhead.
—Martin Seligman, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018
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Artists can respond by reflecting and distorting this new visual field, like the painters Jacqueline Humphries and Laura Owens.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
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Just then, Bianca’s giraffe-like form reappeared in Ainsley’s visual field.
—Lucinda Rosenfeld, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
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To her credit, Queen Maxima pulled it off with ease, seeming to scarcely notice that half of her visual field was obscured by a pile of faux blossoms.
—Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 18 June 2019
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Size influences not just the visual field but portability as well.
—Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2021
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The relay is what’s pulling eye-tracking information off the smart lens and determining where to stream data in your visual field.
—John Koetsier, Forbes, 18 May 2022
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There’s one small problem: astronomy is a highly visual field, and Kane is legally blind.
—Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2023
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The Kardashian family face continued to flood the visual field.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020
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Those included a visual field analyzer and a retinal camera, each of which costs tens of thousands of dollars.
—Jessica Flores, Sam Whiting, Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2021
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Normally, remember, each half of the cortex corresponds to half our visual field.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2013
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Missing the right side of his occipital lobe, UD’s brain never fully compensated for the loss of the region that handles visual input from the left side of his visual field.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2018
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These neurons responded to a dark or a light bar of a particular orientation in a specific region of the visual field of the animal.
—Christof Koch, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2015
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The counting task demands hypervigilance in relation to events in the whiter part of the visual field, which in turn induces hypovigilance in relation to the darker parts.
—Hari Kunzru, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
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This makes sense because the higher-tier neurons are compiling signals from many lower-tier neurons, drawing in information across a wider patch of the visual field.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
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The installation is what Turrell calls a Ganzfeld, a German word that denotes the loss of spatial perception that occurs in a featureless, uniform visual field, such as a fog whiteout.
—New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
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Along the way, signals from important features in our visual field—strong outlines, faces, bright points of light—increase the firing of some neurons, while less important features decrease the firing of others.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2014
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Previous research had shown that in the superior colliculus, signals from the eyes get spread out into a two-dimensional map that is flipped left-to-right relative to the visual field.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2014
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The experience lasts about five minutes and functions as a sort of Turrell acid test, during which the dazzling colors of light completely eliminate any sense of depth within each person’s visual field.
—John Zotos, Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2020
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