It makes up around 12% of the surface area of the cerebral cortex. The occipital lobe contains the primary visual processing center of the brain, including the visual cortexes. When presented ...

Blindsight is a phenomenon in which patients with damage in the primary visual cortex of the brain can tell where an object is although they claim they cannot see it. A research team led by Prof ...

Or can the "visual" cortex, under some conditions, respond to sounds? Two papers published recently address this question. First off, Micah Murray and colleagues of Switzerland discuss The ...

The primary visual cortex (V1) is reached by the nerve fibers of the optic radiation, which carry nerve impulses from the retinas of both eyes. Until now, scientists knew little about the effects ...

Blindsight is a condition that results from damage to the primary visual cortex, the part of the brain responsible for vision. Even though the injury causes vision loss, other parts of the brain ...

In other words, we see not only with our eyes, but with our brain, too. The primary visual brain cortex is normally regarded as the area where eye signals are merely processed, but that has now ...

More information: Ian Antón Oldenburg et al, The logic of recurrent circuits in the primary visual cortex, Nature Neuroscience (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-023-01510-5 . Journal information ...

Researchers discover a new visual pathway that bypasses the primary visual cortex in mice, a structure previously considered essential to all visual processing. The newly discovered pathway (red).

While a mouse watched the movie, researchers simultaneously recorded activity in several hundred neurons in the primary visual cortex, using two-photon calcium imaging. The scientists repeated the ...

A recent study in Nature Neuroscience provides evidence that individual perceptual differences may not be so influenced by culture as by the size of our primary visual cortex.(This part of the ...