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Occipital lobe

Known as: Region, Occipital, Occipital region, Lobes, Occipital 
Posterior portion of the CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES responsible for processing visual sensory information. It is located posterior to the parieto-occipital… 
National Institutes of Health

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Broader (1)

Cerebral cortex

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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Changes in cortical activation during mirror reading before and after training: an fMRI study of procedural learning.
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Regional Cerebral Glucose Metabolism in Turner Syndrome
ABSTRACT: Regional cerebral glucose metabolism was examined in females with Turner syndrome, a sex chromosome abnormality… 
Review
1986
Review
1986
Anatomy of posterior pathways in reading: A reassessment
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Synaptic remodelling during development and maturation: junction differentiation and splitting as a mechanism for modifying connectivity.
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Increasing PGO spike density by auditory stimulation increases the duration and decreases the latency of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP): Brain distribution, subcellular localization and effect of deafferentation of the hypothalamus in male rats
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
CORTICAL EVOKED RESPONSES TO VISUAL STIMULATION IN FULL-TERM AND PREMATURE NEWBORNS.
Review
1962
Review
1962
Commissural connections between occipital lobes of the monkey
  • R. Myers
  • The Journal of comparative neurology
  • 1962
  • Corpus ID: 1679337
One of the prime concerns of the neurological sciences has been the relation of brain processes to processes of the mind. Despite… 
Highly Cited
1960
Highly Cited
1960
Cortical electrical responses to visual stimulation in the human infant.
Highly Cited
1939
Highly Cited
1939
Presence of Cancer-producing Substances in Roasted Food
A SERIES of mice was painted every second day for a long time in the ordinary manner in the occipital region with an alcohol or… 
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