Diagram showing left side of the brain with the occipital lobe, coloured red, indicated with a black arrow.
The picture of what we are looking at is computed in the occipital lobes and created by the mind.
Look at this picture of a dog and cat (below)
This picture has:
In future lessons we will look at how each of these are affected by CVI, but for now, looking at the picture, without the different colours and shades of colours, and without the fine detail, we would not be able to visually recognise what we are looking at.
So, the occipital lobes create the image, but this is only one part of our visual world.
Our visual world combines many different elements.
The occipital lobes do not on their own:
The occipital lobes compute the picture, like a photograph of what you are looking at.
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