The Occipital Lobe
This part of the brain functions as the visual processing
center of the human brain. It contains most of the visual
cortex area, and responsible for many important visual
functions such as color discrimination, visio-spatial
processing and motion perception.
The lobe is divided into functional visual zones.
Each zone contains a "sketch" of the outside world.
The first functional zone is called the primary
visual cortex containing description of the orientation,
spatial frequency and color defintions within tiny
receptive fields. Primary visual cortex projects to the
occipital zones of the ventral stream the dorsal stream and others.
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