Neuroscience

Neuroscience

Neuroscience is a branch of biology concerned with the study of the nervous system, the brain and the links between brain activities and behaviors.

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segmentation

Biology; Neuroscience

The anterior-posterior division of animals into roughly similar repeating units.

visual field

Biology; Neuroscience

The area in the external world normally seen by one or both eyes (referred to, respectively, as the monocular and visual binocular fields).

dermatome

Biology; Neuroscience

The area of skin supplied by the sensory axons of a single spinal nerve.

lateral superior olive (LSO)

Biology; Neuroscience

The auditory brainstem structure that processes interaural intensity differences and, in humans, mediates sound localization for stimuli greater than 3 kHz.

medial superior olive (MSO)

Biology; Neuroscience

The auditory brainstem structure that processes interaural time differences and serves to compute the horizontal location of a sound source.

Schaffer collaterals

Biology; Neuroscience

The axons of cells in the CA3 region of hippocampus that form synapses in the CA1 region.

optic tract

Biology; Neuroscience

The axons of retinal ganglion cells after they have passed through the region of the optic chiasm en route to the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus.