• - primary visual cortex V1
  • - processing and interpreting visual information received from the eyes
  • - lesion: visual field defects on the opposite side
  • - visual attention

  • - secondary visual cortex V2
  • - further analysis of the received visual information
  • - face association
  • - processing sign language

  • - associative visual cortex V3, V4, V5
  • - complex processing of visual information
  • - processing phonological properties of written forms
  • - visual memory