adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the visual appearance
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Intensive farming changed the visual appearance of the countryside.
visual acuity
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A motorist needs good visual acuity .
visual aid
visual arts
visual display unit
visual imagery
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Their dreams commonly involved complex stories with visual imagery .
visual memory (= your ability to remember things you have seen )
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Poor spellers often have a weak visual memory.
visual/audio/audio-visual aids (= recorded sounds, pictures, film etc, used to help describe or explain something )
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No scientific lecture is ever given without slides or other visual aids.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
acuity
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Contact lenses sometimes give better visual acuity in these cases and the field of vision is nearly always improved.
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The simplified scale in Figure 1 gives an indication of the range of vision as described in terminology based on visual acuity .
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The amount of pigmentation tends to increase slightly with age up to adolescence and brings with it a gradual improvement in visual acuity .
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Such vision would be recorded as 6/60 and would indicate severely reduced visual acuity .
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In measuring visual acuity in this way, a figure which looks like a fraction is recorded.
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Here, visual acuity is not so sharp, nor is our ability to judge distances so good.
aid
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Full use should be made of visual aids and internal specialist advice should be taken.
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No scientific lecture is ever given without slides or other visual aids , especially if chemical structures are to be shown.
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Time-charts and time-lines should become important visual aids .
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Without benefit of notes, visual aids , gestures or humor she spoke for ninety oddly mesmerizing minutes.
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Any visual aid should be carefully selected and planned to add clarity to the presentation. 2.
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As a visual aid to anatomical familiarity, a reference book such as this has undoubted value.
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In general, all visual aids were used for a purpose.
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By making the most of new visual aid technology.
aids
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Full use should be made of visual aids and internal specialist advice should be taken.
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No scientific lecture is ever given without slides or other visual aids , especially if chemical structures are to be shown.
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Time-charts and time-lines should become important visual aids .
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Without benefit of notes, visual aids , gestures or humor she spoke for ninety oddly mesmerizing minutes.
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You have to force yourself not to talk to the visual aids and to synchronize your gestures with your main messages.
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In general, all visual aids were used for a purpose.
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In 1971, the General Nursing Council convened a committee to look into the the use of visual aids in training schools.
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Is there a selection of visual aids and recruitment material available for use by staff?
appeal
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Most diamonds are brown or yellow with little visual appeal and are fit only for industrial use.
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What counts is the emotive visual appeal to feelings or fears and not the logical appeal to abstract rigorous thought.
art
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He also argues that, in its turn, the Scientific Revolution had some effect on the visual arts .
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For five years he had been a professor of visual arts at the University of California at San Diego.
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In these senses this show contributes to contemporary radical perspectives within the visual arts , especially as contextualised within the gallery.
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Last year was the first real attempt to recognise the new energy around in the visual arts .
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Around 5,000 art historians, museum curators, critics and other visual arts professionals are expected to attend.
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It was a wonderful meeting of the performing and visual arts in stunning surroundings.
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Perhaps the most surprising absentee from most general discussions of colour is its use in the visual arts .
artist
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Roma Ryan tells me she was a visual artist - she specialised in batik before she met Nicholas and produced a family.
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Kirstein was an artistic matchmaker in the manner of Diaghilev, bringing together choreographers, composers and visual artists .
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Sometimes the frontier is crossed by musicians and writers, sometimes by visual artists .
contact
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Therefore, with a half to 1 minute still to run we should be able to establish visual contact .
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The flight proceeded uneventfully, in visual contact with the ground, until the aircraft approached Keswick.
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In fact you will not descend below your decision height until visual contact is established.
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The missed approach is commenced immediately on reaching decision height, if visual contact has not been made at this point.
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On making visual contact with the field. 3.
cortex
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When applied to the newly discovered cytochrome oxidase blobs in the visual cortex of primates the correlational approach is quite revealing.
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In the case of the visual cortex , no one knows yet.
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You find that cells in adjacent parts of the visual cortex are activated by stimulation in adjacent parts of the visual field.
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But for the visual cortex , light flashes work pretty well.
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It can also influence learned and voluntary reactions to visual stimuli when the visual cortex is absent.
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Yet back in the primary visual cortex , the fourth layer is the most impressive of all.
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Indeed, it is extremely difficult to distinguish between the primary visual cortex and surrounding areas in this species.
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What is their relationship to the visual cortex ?
cue
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Body language is probably the most important visual cue .
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We are responding to the visual cues .
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Nor are women so fixated by visual cues , so obsessed with physical rivalry.
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It is communicated both by auditory and visual cues .
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Nevertheless, rats can be trained to carry out visual discrimination tasks and will use visual cues to guide their natural behaviour.
display
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There are many illustrations throughout which offer a visual display of the technique or design which the text is referring to.
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Is the visual display area adequate? 6.
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Rostov checked the visual display again.
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Once there it may appear on editor's data bank visual display unit as a single-line headline.
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There are integrated visual display units attached. 3.
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The same response was then produced withholding the visual display .
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The contents of any message stored in the teleprinter's memory can be viewed on the visual display unit. 8.
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The pod began to shudder and Rostov quickly checked the visual display .
effect
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Philips's interest is in the stunning visual effect .
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This plant grows abundantly over the whole aquarium and produces fine visual effects with an underwater light source.
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Geometric perspective Perspective, the visual effect of distance, was first expressed in cave drawings.
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Warner Digital Studios is one of a handful of studio in-house operations that have entered the increasingly competitive visual effects business.
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Narrative portions describe action, and evoke visual effects reminiscent of the theatre.
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The result is a digitized display of flora, fauna and visual effects .
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This doctrine strove above all else for visual effect .
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It has won two Emmys for special visual effects and makeup.
evidence
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The visual evidence accumulates in the courtroom without argument: maps, video footage, satellite imagery and photographs.
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The abundance of visual evidence in the King case produced a crisis of interpretation.
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For this reason, arguments for the existence of the monster based upon visual evidence have met with a good deal of scepticism.
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Himmelwright brings his argument into line with the visual evidence .
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A presenter, after all, knows that a viewer has the visual evidence to check on what is being said.
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Nordenfalk's book includes the scrupulous examination of visual evidence always welcome and often found in writing by a museum curator.
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Much of the visual evidence was contradictory.
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What visual evidence is there of the quality of children's work?
experience
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They can help the reader to develop the appreciation and enjoyment of pictorial material by offering a range of rich visual experiences .
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She overreacted to certain types of touch, visual experiences , and sounds.
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I stop at the traffic light when I have a visual experience which others would describe as seeing a green light.
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The parietal lobes are probably what keep our visual experiences from looking like an amateur videotape, jerking from here to there.
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The poem which leads you on to too many different visual experiences is very hard to illustrate.
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It is better to use a poem which elaborates one visual experience and not a whole series of visual pictures.
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Let us begin with the proposition that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement.
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But with art nowadays the eyes do not always have it: texts, contexts and theories often jostle visual experience aside.
form
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This is why the letter detectors are referred to as abstract: they do not provide information about specific visual form .
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The laboratory had some elegant computer-controlled apparatus for teaching the monkeys to discriminate between visual forms such as letters.
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There were numerous illustrated broadsides and woodcuts which carried their message in visual form .
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They give a good general impression of the size of the figures involved in a clear visual form .
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That is significant because dyslexia is essentially an inability to deal with linguistic information in visual form .
handicap
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Hemianopia Damage to one side of the brain can cause visual handicap .
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Taped sources can be effective, especially for pupils with reading difficulties or visual handicap .
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For example, teachers may pose the following questions: Why don't all children with visual handicap wear glasses?
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Even those few with more severe visual handicaps will operate as sighted people.
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These different conditions can arise from over-protection or lack of understanding of visual handicap .
image
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Remember the importance of the visual image and try to keep your theme unified and simple.
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They sometimes react to just part of a visual image , rather than the entire image.
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This function will tend to concentrate on the visual image and publications resources.
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They quickly detect changes in the visual image and tend to exaggerate them.
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The more usual version of this theme is simply that one has a visual image of the part of the body touched.
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The verbal judgement would seem to be thought of, rather, as an adjunct to the visual image .
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Or they might discuss the juxtaposition of certain symbols, or certain strong visual images .
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Certainly in both Flame in the Streets and Sapphire, the visual images neutralise White liberalism.
imagery
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The first is that it consists in visual imagery .
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Soon, Louisa was using her strong capacity for visual imagery to compensate for her difficulty in remembering words and sentences.
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Empirical work will be carried out to develop and standardise a new research technique using visual imagery to probe beliefs about pain.
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Others who joined in sponsoring the law said it could help curb pinups and other visual imagery that demeans women.
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If Jarman comes dangerously close in the last to propagating the politics of ennui, his visual imagery is anything but predictable.
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The album is filled with folky, pop-inflected tunes, characterized by visual imagery , hope and passion.
impact
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The visual impact is deeply inspiring.
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Tuggener's work aims to create not so much a strong visual impact as a symphony of forms.
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The plan had previously blocked because the inspector concluded that the visual impact would be too great.
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Otherwise the powerful visual impact of television would distort and trivialise.
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However, these criticisms are outweighed by the visual impact which pie charts have.
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It is often effective to draw the bars in three dimensions as this lengthens the visual impact .
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Whilst the hillside location creates a strong visual impact it also provides practical uses.
impairment
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An artist who has a visual impairment , working with and not against its limitations.
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Nausea, visual impairment , or headache occasionally occur.
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Five years after his illness began the patient complained of progressive visual impairment .
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However, visual impairment does seem to be related to both anxiety and depression.
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An additional 5 % to 10 % of all children have significant visual impairment that could be corrected if glasses were available.
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These activities capitalise on the strengths of pupils, whether they have visual impairment , severe learning difficulties or other special needs.
information
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Focus on visual information may be sharpened, when pupils are not trying to follow a sound commentary at the same time.
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Less color, brightness, and texture may help with visual information .
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But a bat uses its sound information for very much the same kind of purpose as we use our visual information.
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Newborns also can process visual information , remember what they have seen, and use that information.
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Analysis of these eye fixations during reading provides insight into the visual information being processed.
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Analysis of the eye fixations that people make when reading provides some insight into what visual information is being processed.
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When we talk to each other we usually take in this kind of visual information subconsciously.
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This is the first region of the cortex to which visual information is transferred.
inspection
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The services are not tested but a visual inspection is made and advice is offered if further specialists' tests are needed.
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Usually the procedures will include a visual inspection of the equipment, reagents and instruments used, and a check of calculations.
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Protein alignment was by visual inspection .
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This involves a combination of visual inspection and electrical testing.
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The child seems unable to explore all aspects of the stimulus, or decenter the visual inspection .
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Next stage is a thorough clean-again associated with a careful visual inspection .
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At this point a visual inspection took place to ensure that there were no leaks.
language
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All painters use a visual language .
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Popular art not only borrowed visual languages from Hollywood and Madison Avenue, it echoed its stereotypes.
material
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They encompass all kinds of visual material and account for both the aesthetic and non-aesthetic response.
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Like Watson, Carr has assembled generous visual material on the best-known artists of abstract expressionism, especially Pollock and de Kooning.
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The drinks industry circulates briefing packs consisting of audio and visual material to its target groups.
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Others claimed that the restrictions on the transmission of visual material in particular were excessive.
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The visual material generated an enormous amount of interest and critical comment.
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Adair complains that ` John Madden is a perfectly competent organiser of visual material and an effective director of actors.
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What I have in mind is a small selection of visual material with a minimum of caption text.
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Proximity to the eye is one effective way of magnifying visual material .
memory
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Babies prefer complexity, diversity, and movement, and they have visual memory .
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The visual memory is being worked hard here; the child has to carry strings of words, related by meaning.
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The difficulty he has confirms his likely weakness of visual memory .
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You're an artist; use your visual memory .
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People have good visual memories , though.
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This suggests again a poor visual memory .
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If no - has he a weak visual memory ?
perception
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Firstly, that there is a change in visual perception .
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Conversely a child who is weak in visual perceptions can be helped to use auditory and verbal skills to comprehend other children.
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Theories of visual perception have altered significantly in the twentieth century.
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The question is whether this system contributes to visual perception in the normal brain.
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Let me illustrate this point by introducing some recent work on the topic of visual perception .
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Two-year-olds also have to learn how visual perception works.
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Any workable theory of visual perception must incorporate this discovery.
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Adaptation was expected to be the result of a change in visual perception or the proprioceptive sense of the arm.
problem
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However, teachers may encounter children at school who still have visual problems although cataracts have been removed.
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A child with cerebral palsy may have additional disabilities such as visual problems , language delay or coordination difficulties.
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In the early stages of a child's development the visual problem can be masked.
recognition
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An obvious candidate is a visual recognition system.
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There are mazes, obstacle courses, visual recognition games, trial-and-error experiments, arcade-style shooting games.
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The only way in which visual recognition of a word can be primed is by previously seeing the word.
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The priming experiments can tell us something more specific about the visual recognition system used for identifying words.
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Obviously, being transparent makes visual recognition by both predators and prey more difficult.
reference
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The visual references in the two magazines are as much from photos of the artist as from her work.
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The procedure is exactly the same when you fly on instruments; but without the external visual references .
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This is another reason to start off any flying training by emphasising visual references instead of the instruments.
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Experiments with blindfolded pigeons have shown that birds are no more able to fly without a visual reference than are human pilots.
representation
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Although in theory Postscript could be viewed as a general purpose programming language, it is strongly biassed towards visual representation .
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Figure 8. 1 attempts to provide a visual representation of the relationship among these related concepts.
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Not only visual representation , but the written word, too, is not free of imperialism.
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They provide a visual representation of how performance is changing over time.
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Planning of the lesson sequence is important: what visual representations are required and what needs to be included on each transparency?
stimulus
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It can also influence learned and voluntary reactions to visual stimuli when the visual cortex is absent.
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The eye must be correctly connected to a brain, within a complex organism which is able to react to visual stimuli .
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They can be trained to run simple mazes or to associate food with colours or other visual stimuli .
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There are lots of ceramics books, postcards and other visual stimuli around the shop, too, to help the hesitant.
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For example, most infants smile to visual stimuli at about 5 weeks of age.
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A child presented with a visual stimulus tends to center or fix attention on a limited perceptual aspect of the stimulus.
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Another response to a visual stimulus was Thomson's series of musical portraits of people such as Picasso and Aaron Copland.
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There are now less visual stimuli , but it is still far too loud.
system
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The location of edges has to be reconstructed by the visual system .
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For example, our visual system maps visual space on to the surface of our visual cortex.
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We need additional, converging, evidence to show that the subcortical visual system contributes to normal vision.
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These other sites are often referred to as the subcortical visual system .
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Unfortunately, your visual system can not do this.
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It may turn out that the somatosensory and visual systems are not organized in exactly the same ways.
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Deficits in visual function following subcortical visual system lesions have been reported many times but it is difficult to interpret them.
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At present computational models of the visual system are running ahead of our neurophysiological understanding.
world
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It is out of such events that the visual field, indeed the visual world , is composed.
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The right brain winds up with what is seen by both eyes of the left side of the visual world .
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Basil was above all a seeing person of sensibility and perception, responding spontaneously to every aspect of the visual world .
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Some patients with right-brain strokes tend to ignore anything on the left side of their visual world .
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Clearly they are able to switch mentally between auditory and visual worlds .
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Our visual world is an immediately present one of colours and flat two-dimensional shapes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mental/visual/cognitive/hearing etc impairment
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An artist who has a visual impairment , working with and not against its limitations.
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Five years after his illness began the patient complained of progressive visual impairment .
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Hearing checks are essential as conductive hearing impairment is very frequent in young children.
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However, visual impairment does seem to be related to both anxiety and depression.
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Nausea, visual impairment , or headache occasionally occur.
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The authors recognise the many methodological problems in studying disabilities that may result from hearing impairment .
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The complete lack of cognitive improvements leads them to suggest that cognitive impairment is intrinsically associated with long-term morbidity in schizophrenia.
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This is one reason why hearing impairment in childhood is totally different from hearing loss in adult life.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a powerful visual impact
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Children learn to read by interpreting visual symbols.
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Teachers have been using visual aids in the classroom for decades.
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The movie is greatly enhanced by its stunning visual effects.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A presenter, after all, knows that a viewer has the visual evidence to check on what is being said.
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Although in theory Postscript could be viewed as a general purpose programming language, it is strongly biassed towards visual representation.
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Indeed, the portrait must be considered one of the outstanding Roman contributions to the visual arts.
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The close association between the visual and the cultural may explain the reluctance of some teachers to give it much attention.
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The effects are simply terrific and create a visual extravaganza rare for television.
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The trilogy will include previously unreleased footage as well as new visual effects and an enhanced soundtrack.
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They sometimes react to just part of a visual image, rather than the entire image.