Stevenson's romances are remarkable for artistic style, clearness of visual image, and boyish love of adventure.

The neural action accompanying this occurrence consists of an impression upon the nerve-cells in the eye, the conduction of the nervous current back to the visual area of the brain, the transmission of the current over association neurones to the motor area, then its transmission over the motor neurones, down the spinal cord, to the muscles that enable you to dodge the missile.

The word image is somewhat ill-chosen; for it usually signifies something connected with the eye, and implies that the stuff of mental images is entirely visual.

Most people use visual and auditory images more freely than they do other kinds.

Look at it attentively, securing a perfectly clear impression of it; then practise calling up the visual image of it, until you secure perfect reproduction.

Such persons think often in terms of visual images.

Other people have not this ability to recall in visual terms, but depend to greater extent upon sounds.

For example, one might prefer visual impression for remembering dates in history but auditory impression for conjugating French verbs.

If you find that you have greater difficulty in remembering material impressed through the ear than through the eye, reduce things to visual terms as much as possible.

So he asks that the name be spelled, then projects the letters on an imaginary background, thus forming visual stuff which can easily be recalled.

To improve ability to form visual images of things, practise calling up visions of things.

The disturbance may be visual.

Although it is ordinarily thought that if the eyes are closed, no visual disturbances can be sensed, nevertheless, as a matter of fact the eye-lids are not wholly opaque.

Psychedelics enthusiasts (people who either ingested substances such as LSD or found themselves inspired by the art, writing and expression of the culture associated with these drugs) found themselves drawn to technologies that were capable of reproducing both the visual effects of their hallucinations as well as the sense of newfound connection with others.

Unfortunately for science, the game had now begun, and the players were curiously indifferent as to the visual organs of water-fleas.

"We will have the visual test now," said Hauteville; "we must go to another room.

Why do you want my arm in that leather thing?" "I told you, Groener," put in the judge, "that we were coming here for the visual test; it's part of your examination.

A good blend of visuals (photos, illustration, and the like) and text makes a copy appealing.

Anecdotes find their way into print, from time to time, of persons whose visual memory is so clear and sharp as to present mental pictures that may be scrutinised with nearly as much ease and prolonged attention as if they were real objects.

A well-known frequenter of the Royal Institution tells me that he often craves for an absence of visual perceptions, they are so brilliant and persistent.

But the powers of other men are considerably less; thus an engineer officer who has himself great power of visual memory, and who has superintended the mathematical education of cadets, doubts if one in ten can visualise an object in three dimensions.

The fish-like and lethargic eye We should endeavour to efface, And foster visual orbs that vie With those of eagles in its place; While belladonna's artful use An extra brilliance may produce. Nor are there wanting ways and means Enabling experts to impose By sundry suitable machines Fine character upon the nose; And nasal dignity, we find, Promptly reacts upon the mind.

He may find, for instance, that he remembers the anatomical facts about the human eye most easily and correctly by associating them with their evolutionary history, or the facts about the bones of the hand by associating them with the visual image of

As we read in the newspaper that 'the educated Bengalis are disaffected' we either see, in the half-conscious substratum of visual images which accompanies our reading, a single Babu with a disaffected expression or the vague suggestion of a long row of identical Babus all equally disaffected.

He from thick Films shall purge the visual Ray, v. 5, 6.]