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occipital lobe

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occipital lobe [äk′sip·əd·əl ¦lōb]
(anatomy)
The posterior lobe of the cerebrum having the form of a three-sided pyramid.


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The occipital lobe is primarily responsible for vision-related functions and, therefore, must process the visual features of the letters.
They put a neural implant in the occipital lobe of a blind volunteer.
Additional research suggests that changes like those occurring in the frontal lobes occur in the parietal lobes, which are involved in the processing of sensory information, in addition to other functions; in the occipital lobes, which are involved in the processing of visual information; and in the temporal lobes, which are critically involved in memory formation as well as visual and auditory processing (Geidd et al.
 
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