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Occipital Lobe Kiley Pugh and Ben Hodges. Function. The occipital lobes are involved in several functions of the body including: -Visual Perception -Color Recognition Neurons separately encode different visual information such as color, orientation, and motion. -. Function. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Occipital LobeKiley Pugh and Ben Hodges
Function
The occipital lobes are involved in several functions of the body including:
-Visual Perception -Color Recognition Neurons separately encode different visual
information such as color, orientation, and motion.-
Function
Two important pathways of information originating in the occipital lobes are the dorsal and ventral streams.
The dorsal stream processes where objects are located.
The ventral stream processes what objects are.
Process
How it Works
-receives information from eyes and transmits it to the occipital lobe.
-the left eye goes to the right side of the lobe and the right eye goes to the left side of the lobe.
the information goes through the optic nerve to the back of the brain.
Discovery
The discovery of the visual cortex began in the late 1700's and spanned over a century.
Investigators had little understanding of how the brain worked.
Francesco Gennari
Discovery Gennari discovered a third substance in addition
to the “whitish layer”. This third substance or stripe consists of axons
that transmits signals within the occipital lobe. He observed that this stripe was most prominent
in what is now known to be the primary visual cortex.
Experiments In the typical experiment investigators produced
lesions in the brains of animals and studied the resulting effects.
David Ferrier Ferrier claimed that the removal of a region in the
parietal lobe blinded monkeys. He believed that this area controlled vision.
Hermann Munk Later works proved Munk correct.
Experiments
Solomen Henschen In every case, the damage included the region of
the occipital cortex that surrounds and includes the calcarine fissure.
This region contains the part of the cortex in which Gennari's stripe is most visible.
After a century, Henschen confirmed Gennari's theory.
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How it connects
The occipital lobe always works with the temporal lobe on keeping balance and sensory information
It also works the the retina in the eye to see things.
It takes what we see from our eyes to the retina through the optic nerve to the occipital lobe. Then send the information to the sensory nerves to act on what to do.
It works with the other four lobes
In case of Injury If the occipital lobe was hit or injured you will not be able to
see. This would have an effect on your eyes your balance. It would also effect your vision and perception of size, color,
and shape. Production of hallucinations Visual illusions - inaccurately seeing objects. Word blindness - inability to recognize words. Difficulty in recognizing drawn objects Inability to recognize the movement of an object (Movement
Agnosia) Difficulties with reading and writing.
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Current Research
Most research is being done is on seizures. Seizures could be caused by strobe lights and
other fast moving lights. Scientists are trying to find out the cause of
epilepsy by studying the Occipital Lobe. They are also trying to find out how to better
treat those with epilepsy.
Works sited
Bailey, Regina. "Occipital Lobes." About.com Biology. About.com, n.d. Web. 21 Sept. 2013.
Taylor, Isabella. Ocipital Epilepsies. Oxford Journal, n.d. Web. 21 Sept. 2013.
"What Happens When the Brain Is Injured?" Brain Basics. WETA, n.d. Web. 21 Sept. 2013.
Bailey, Regina. "Occipital Lobes." About.com Biology. About.com, n.d. Web. 21 Sept. 2013.
Ellis-Christensen, Tricia, and O. Wallace. "What Is the Occipital Lobe?" WiseGeek. Conjecture, n.d. Web. 21 Sept. 2013.