Optic Radiation

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Radiatio optica

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The visual radiation is the term used to designate the ray-shaped fiber bundles that leave the lateral geniculate body and at the lateral wall of the lateral ventricle pass on to the area 17 (striate cortex) at the occipital pole. They conduct the visual raw material after being processed by the LGB. Also called geniculocalcarine tract.

Geniculo-striate Pathway

Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN)

Primary Visual Cortex

Striate Cortex Functions

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Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Marc D. Binder
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo, Japan
Nobutaka Hirokawa
Göttingen, Germany
Uwe Windhorst

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(2009). Optic Radiation. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_4249

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