ABSTRACT
In this section, we focus mainly on brain systems involved in visual perception. The visual cortex is very large, covering about 20% of the entire cortex. It includes the whole of the occipital cortex at the back of the brain and also extends well into the temporal and parietal lobes (Wandell, Dumoulin, & Brewer, 2007). However, to understand fully visual processing in the brain, we need fi rst to consider briefl y what happens between the eye and the cortex. Accordingly, we start with that before discussing cortical processing.
