Primary visual cortex. This area, also known as Broadman area 17 or V1, is the occipital lobe's primary visual cortex.

Injuries to the posterior occipital cortex are common in humans. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can lead to long-term visual impairment (like loss of visual acuity).

Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of ...

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 ...

Researchers discover a new visual pathway that bypasses the primary visual cortex, previously considered essential to all visual processing, in mice.

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

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

Using fMRI, they discovered that the triangle -- although non-existent -- activates the primary visual brain cortex. This is the first area in the cortex to deal with a signal from the eyes.

A normal brain (left) and the boy missing a visual cortex (right) An Australian boy missing the visual processing centre of his brain has baffled doctors by seeming to have near-normal sight. The ...

Individuals with a smaller primary visual cortex perceived a much more pronounced visual illusion than those individuals with a larger visual cortex.

The primary visual cortex has a far more active role in shaping how we see the world than anyone had suspected. Researchers at University College London discovered this when they were testing a ...