- - 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