Brain Diagrams

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Illustration of the human brain identifying the different regions

Illustration of a cross-section of the human brain identifying the geniculostriate visual pathway

The geniculostriate visual pathway includes the lateral geniculate nucleus, the optic radiations and part of the primary visual cortex

Long description of diagrams

Adapted From:

Palmer, Stephen E., (1999). Vision science: Photons to phenomenology. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press

Sousa, David A., (2001). How the special brain learns. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press