When Brain Matters sat down with Dr. Alyssa Brewer from The University of California, Irvine, we talked about maps of visual information in the brain.
The visual cortex is the area of the brain that is responsible for processing visual information. Much of this brain area is organized into maps where each hemisphere encodes information about half of the visual field. Light seen through the fovea (an area of the retina used for fine visual acuity) occupies a large amount of space in the cortical representation of the visual field.
Find the full review article on PubMed.
Image Credit:
Brian A. Wandell, Serge O. Dumoulin, Alyssa A. Brewer, Visual Field Maps in Human Cortex, Neuron, Volume 56, Issue 2, 25 October 2007, Pages 366-383.
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