Relating to or preserving the spatial relations of the sensory receptors of the retina.
〔生理〕视网膜区域定位的，视局部的
the retinotopic arrangement of fibres in cat optic nerve
Example sentencesExamples
Information from these receptors is processed in the optic lobes of the brain which are divided into three subsequent retinotopic neuropils named, respectively, the lamina, medulla, and lobula.
This number, as well as the spatial resolution of the retinotopic maps and of the somatotopic and cochleotopic maps, measured by comparable techniques are still poorly known across taxa.
Derivatives
retinotopically
adverb
Physiology
Many areas preserve the spatial structure of at least part of the retina, and hence are called retinotopically mapped.
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Anisotropic axes in orientation perception are not retinotopically mapped.