Planning occipital lobe

November 25 / 2017

Stage: b) planning

Approaches to learning: Information management and media literacy skills because I took information that was given to me the the web and synthesized it into main ideas that are easy to understand.

According to my work plan, today I am supposed to research about the occipital lobe and the things I want to say about it in my book, I believe the information I found is quite useful and will help me very much in the development if my project. 

Occipital lobe: - Located in the forebrain at the back of the head

- It receives and interprets visual information

- It rests underneath the occipital bone

- It assess distance, size and depth

- Identifies visual stimuli such as faces and objects 

- Contributes to spatial reasoning and visual memory.

- It determines color properties of objects

- It receives raw visual data from the retina

- It transmits visual information to other brain regions 

- Occipital lobe damage increases vulnerability to seizures

- Damage can case difficulty in recognizing familiar objects or faces.

- It aids in reading comprehension as well as the recognition of object movement

- The eyes transmit information via nerve impulses to the visual cortex where the information is processed, then, the information is sent to the temporal and parietal lobes for further processing.

https://www.spinalcord.com/occipital-lobe

https://www.thoughtco.com/occipital-lobes-anatomy-373224