Occipital Lobe

The occipital lobe at the back of the brain contains the primary visual cortex (V1) and extrastriate areas V2, V3, V4, and MT that process color, motion, and form. Hubel and Wiesel's Nobel Prize-winning work on orientation-selective neurons in V1 revolutionized neuroscience. Visual information flows dorsally ('where' pathway) to parietal cortex and ventrally ('what' pathway) to temporal cortex for object recognition.