The Occipital Lobes

Area V1

Striate cortex

Color vision

Primary visual cortex (V1)

Secondary visual cortex (V2)

Dorsal stream

Ventral stream

STS stream

A theory of occipital lobe function

Lesions to the occipital lobe

Visual regions

Vision

Vision for action

Visual recognition

Visual space

Egocentric space

Allocentric space

Haxby and colleagues

Monocular blindness

Bitemporal hemianopia

Nasal hemianopia

Homonymous hemianopia

Macular sparing

Quadrantoanopia or hemianopia

Scotomas

Apperceptive agnosia

Simultagnosia

Object agnosia

Associative agnosia

Prosopagnosia

Alexia

Alexia as a form of object agnosia

Alexia as a form of associative agnosia

Visual imagery