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  2. Your occipital lobe, found at the back of your brain, is home to your brains visual processing abilities. It also links sight with other senses and brain abilities.

  3. Occipital Lobe: Function, Location, and Structure - Simply...

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    The occipital lobe is located at the very back of the brain and contains the primary visual cortex, which is responsible for interpreting incoming visual information. It is the smallest lobe of the brain, accounting for around 12% of the total surface area of the brain’s cortex.

  4. Occipital lobe: Definition, function, and linked conditions

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    The occipital lobe is the part of the brain responsible for interpreting information from the eyes and turning it into what a person sees. It helps determine distance, depth, color, and other...

  5. The occipital lobe is the visual processing area of the brain. It is associated with visuospatial processing, distance and depth perception, color determination, object and face recognition, and memory formation.

  6. Occipital lobe: Anatomy, function and clinical relations - Kenhub

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    The occipital lobe is the smallest lobe of the cerebral hemisphere and only accounts for approximately 18% of the total neocortical volume. It forms the most posterior portion of the brain, with the occipital pole constituting the most caudal point of the occipital lobe and the cerebrum.

  7. Occipital lobe - Wikipedia

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    The two occipital lobes are the smallest of four paired lobes in the human brain. Located in the rearmost portion of the skull, the occipital lobes are part of the posterior cerebrum. The lobes of the brain are named from the overlying bone and the occipital bone overlies the occipital lobes.

  8. Brain Anatomy and How the Brain Works - Johns Hopkins Medicine

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    The occipital lobe is the back part of the brain that is involved with vision. Temporal lobe. The sides of the brain, temporal lobes are involved in short-term memory, speech, musical rhythm and some degree of smell recognition.

  9. The occipital lobe is the rearmost lobe of the brain, located in the forebrain. It rests upon the tentorium cerebelli, a thick membrane of tissue the separates the cerebrum from the evolutionarily older cerebellum.

  10. Occipital Lobe: What Is It, Its Function - Osmosis

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    The occipital lobe is the region of the brain responsible for perception of our visual world, including color, form, and motion. The human brain has two occipital lobes, one in each hemisphere of the brain, that are divided by the central cerebral fissure.

  11. Lobes of the brain: Structure and function - Kenhub

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    The occipital lobe lies just underneath the occipital bone. It forms the most posterior portion of the brain and is found behind both the parietal and temporal lobes. The occipital lobe lies over the tentorium cerebelli, while its medial surface faces the falx cerebri.