How to Use visual field in a Sentence

visual field

noun
  • Babies seem to prefer to keep their mother in the left visual field, too.
    — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
  • But a dog’s visual field is limited to what the dog sees sitting on the car seat.
    — Marlene Cimons, Washington Post, 29 June 2024
  • This gives them a wider visual field of view, which is useful in the wild for spotting and avoiding predators.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Most arthropods, for instance, respond to a looming threat based on how big the blob in their visual field is.
    — Tom Siegfried, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
  • This corresponds to a tiny circular region of the visual field, the size of a small coin at arm’s length.
    — Nick Chater, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2018
  • How can the left hemisphere of the brain respond to stimuli presented in the wrong (left) visual field?
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2017
  • This is a test that measures your visual field and how well your peripheral vision is working.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Size influences not just the visual field but portability as well.
    — Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2021
  • This is a primitive and ancient mechanism by which stress controls the visual field.
    — Jessica Wapner, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2020
  • That magnetic pulse caused a flash of light (a phosphene) in the receiver’s visual field of the receiver as a cue to turn the block.
    — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The regions affected in boys’ brains are involved in processing objects in the visual field as well as faces.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
  • An unexpected disturbance in the visual field can be a trigger.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Just then, Bianca’s giraffe-like form reappeared in Ainsley’s visual field.
    — Lucinda Rosenfeld, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • The pros Robotic surgery offers a visual field that is magnified 10 times stronger than the human eye.
    — Uma Raja, Sun Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2025
  • There are two ways of understanding the page—there’s the sonics of the piece, which a poet always attends to, and there’s the visual field.
    — Melissa Ragain, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
  • One afternoon, the sparkles were followed by a burst of bright white light, like a flash from an old-fashioned camera, smack in the middle of his visual field.
    — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 16 June 2021
  • With dynamic current steering, the electrodes stimulate the brain in sequence to trace a shape in the visual field.
    — Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Normally, remember, each half of the cortex corresponds to half our visual field.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2013
  • And, because of the geometry of this area of the brain, the researchers can control where the flashes of light appear in the visual field.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2020
  • When an upper-eyelid procedure removes that extra skin, the eyelids feel lighter and the visual field improves.
    — Carlos Wolf, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The two-dimensional screens compose a visual field corresponding to the amorphous white space through which the dancers move.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 5 June 2018
  • Those included a visual field analyzer and a retinal camera, each of which costs tens of thousands of dollars.
    — Jessica Flores, Sam Whiting, Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The relay is what’s pulling eye-tracking information off the smart lens and determining where to stream data in your visual field.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • Every object in your visual field represents another input your brain must manage.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The Kardashian family face continued to flood the visual field.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Our sound world is as permeated by machinery and amplification as our visual field is by electric light.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Multiple theories attempt to explain how our brains present a smooth visual field without disruption.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The special goggles take in the visual field and translate that into amber points light that could trigger the opsin in the patient’s ganglion cells, and send a signal to the brain.
    — Caroline Seydel, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • Others build dense visual fields from everyday materials.
    — Miguel Sirgado, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In Active Speaker mode, the person talking floods the visual field; the screen becomes a stage for our temporary overlord.
    — Laurence Scott, Wired, 1 June 2020

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