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  2. Vernacular geography - Wikipedia

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    Vernacular regions reflect a "sense of place," but rarely coincide with established jurisdictional borders. [3] Examples of vernacular regions in the United States include Tidewater, also known as Hampton Roads, Siouxland, and the Tri-City area of Batavia, Geneva, and St. Charles, Illinois. Another can be the American South, since it can be non ...

  3. Cultural area - Wikipedia

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    Functional cultural regions, which share political, social, and/or cultural functions. Perceptual, or vernacular, cultural regions, which are based in spatial perception. One example is Braj region of India, which is seen as a spatial whole due to common religious and cultural associations with the specific area.

  4. Visual cortex - Wikipedia

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    Much work has been carried out on this region, as it appears to integrate local visual motion signals into the global motion of complex objects. [64] For example, lesion to the V5 leads to deficits in perceiving motion and processing of complex stimuli. It contains many neurons selective for the motion of complex visual features (line ends ...

  5. List of regions of the United States - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.

  6. Five themes of geography - Wikipedia

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    Regions are areas with distinctive characteristics: human characteristics, such as demographics or politics, and physical characteristics, such as climate and vegetation. For example, the US is a political region because it shares one governmental system. Regions may have clear, well-defined borders or vague boundaries. [1]

  7. Figure–ground (perception) - Wikipedia

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    Figure–ground organization is a type of perceptual grouping that is a vital necessity for recognizing objects through vision. In Gestalt psychology it is known as identifying a figure from the background. For example, black words on a printed paper are seen as the "figure", and the white sheet as the "background". [1]

  8. Visual system - Wikipedia

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    The default mode network is a network of brain regions that are active when an individual is awake and at rest. The visual system's default mode can be monitored during resting state fMRI : Fox, et al. (2005) found that " the human brain is intrinsically organized into dynamic, anticorrelated functional networks" , [ 43 ] in which the visual ...

  9. Perceptual mapping - Wikipedia

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    Example of a multi-dimensional perceptual map. Traditional perceptual maps are built with two visual dimensions (X- and Y-axis). Multidimensional perceptual maps are built with more dimensions visualised as profile charts in small map regions, and then items are mapped to the regions by their similarity to the vectors that represent the region.