occipital lobe

• occipital lobe location

  behind cerebral cortex
• occipital lobe involves

  • reception, processing of visual information
• occipital lobe - visual association areas

  • form visual perception
  • think visually
  • remember visual images
• occipital lobe process

  specialise neuron's in association areas select and integrate information from the primary visual cortex and send visual information to other brain lobes

  allowing information from areas of cerebral cortex to interpret visual information
• damage to occipital lobe

  • visual impairment (blindness)
  • blindspots
• primary visual cortex

  • engaged in the sense of vision
  • receives and processes signals from both eyes
• primary visual cortex

  • visual information arrives at primary visual cortex in pieces
  • then assembles into whole images
  • that is then given meaning