visuo-
(ˈvɪʒjuːəʊ, ˈvɪz-)
combining form on Gr. models of L. vīsu-s sight, vision, employed in a few terms, chiefly Anat., as visuo-auditory, visuo-kinæsthetic, visuo-psychic, visuo-sensory, visuo-spatial, visuo-tactual adjs.; visuo-spatially adv.; ˈvisuometer (see quot. 1847 and cf. visometer); ˈvisuomotor a., pertaining to or involving motor activity as guided by or dependent on sight; ˌvisuoˈpsychic a., an epithet of two cortical areas adjacent to the striate cortex, orig. regarded as sites of mental elaboration of visual sense impressions; ˌvisuoˈsensory a., pertaining to or involving the visual perception of sensory signals; spec. an epithet of the striate cortex (see striate a. 2), as the part of the brain that receives sensory nerve impulses from the eye.
| 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 445 The other [commissure] conducts impressions from the visual to the auditory word-centre (the *visuo-auditory commissure). |
| Ibid. VII. 415 Destruction of the *visuo-kinæsthetic commissure. |
| 1847 A. Smee Vision in Health & Dis. iii. 37 The adjustment of the exact centre of the glass to the optical centres is so important in practice, that I have contrived an instrument to measure the width accurately between these centres... I have called the instrument itself the *visuometer. |
| 1942 Anat. Rec. LXXXIV. 470 (heading) Reestablishment of *visuomotor coordination by optic nerve regeneration. 1972 Science 5 May 536/2 This difference could be observed in splitbrain monkeys executing a visuomotor task with one eye covered. |
| 1900 Phil. Trans. CXCIII. Ser. B. 168 Measurements taken from the whole of the visuo-sensory area and from the neighbouring *visuo-psychic cortex. 1954 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 12) xxix. 500 A lesion of this vessel thus causes a crossed homonymous hemianopia often with disturbances of the visuopsychic areas. 1980 Gray's Anat. (ed. 36) vii. 1010/2 Not only the striate cortex (area 17, visuosensory area), but also the para- and peri-striate areas around it (areas 18 and 19—the ‘visuopsychic’ cortex) receive projection fibres. |
| 1900 *Visuo-sensory [see visuo-psychic adj. above]. 1907 J. H. Parsons Dis. Eye v. 90 This area, which is the primary visual or visuo-sensory area.., is the cortical projection of the corresponding halves of both retinæ. 1980 Visuo-sensory [see visuopsychic adj. above]. |
| 1962 Jrnl. Speech & Hearing Research Dec. 359/2 Factor 3 is a clear-cut *visuospatial factor. Tests..include matching, copying, drawing, and object-assembly tests. Ibid. 367/1 Visuo-spatial behavior..involved both visual and sensory processes. 1977 Lancet 10 Dec. 1227/2 Intelligence tests indicated severe intellectual deterioration on subtests measuring visuospatial perception. |
| 1939 Mind XLVIII. 360 We touch surfaces of things optically known to us, and when we pass from one thing to another we leave them *visuo-spatially related behind us. |
| 1932 H. H. Price Perception ix. 277 Let us call it a *visuo-tactual solid. 1959 J. L. Austin Sense & Sensibilia (1962) ii. 8 Visuo-tactual solids. |