Word: braine
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...story of how the brain region came to be named after a vegetable juice has its roots in over thirty years of research on how the brain processes color...
When your eye sees an object, the image is first processed by your retina, then by a lower brain area, and then by the cerebral cortex. The image first goes to the least specialized region of the cortex, known as V1. As information is subject to more processing, it goes to higher and more specialized areas of the visual cortex designated as V2, V3 and so forth...
English scientist S. A. Zeki thought he had identified the region of the brain used to recognize color in the 1970s. Working with macaque monkeys, Zeki found that there was one region of the brain, V4, responsible for color and another, V5, respon- sible for motion...
...relationship between the vision disordersand the brain abnormalities lent credence toZeki's theory that certain areas of the brain areresponsible for specific functions like motion andcolor perception...
...time went on, Hadjikhani, explained, itbecame clear that "no one really knew where thecolor processor was situated in the brain." Datacast doubt on whether even the macaque colorprocessor was really located in region...