Extrastriatum

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The region outside of the corpus striatum

    "In the case of the weaker stimulus, this expansion was spatially limited, whereas in the case of the stronger stimulus, the foci kept expanding, fused together and covered a wide cortical area including V1 and the extrastriatum."

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"In the case of the weaker stimulus, this expansion was spatially limited, whereas in the case of the stronger stimulus, the foci kept expanding, fused together and covered a wide cortical area including V1 and the extrastriatum."

Etymology

From extra- + striatum.

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corpus striatum

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