Table 2.

Brain structures of vision. This Table illustrates how different visual areas are involved in different functions and sub-function sub serving sensory, cognitive and executive functions involved in visually elicited behaviour

Structure	Abbr.	Function
Retina	Ret	phototransduction, preprocessing
Optic nerve	ON	signal transfer to brain
Lateral geniculate	LGN	bundles different functional channels
Suprachiasmatic nucleus	SCN	circadian rhythm control
Pulvinar nucleus	Pul	orchestrates neural processing of cortex
superior colliculus	SC	sensorimotor integration, orientation
primary visual cortex	V1	feature analysis (pixels and edges)
area V2	V2	binocularity
area V3/V3A	V3/V3A	global motion
area V4	V4	color processing
inferior temporal cortex	IT	object identification (e.g. faces)
middle temporal cortex	MT (or V5)	motion perception and integration
lateral intraparietal cortex	LIP	eye movements (saccades)
frontal eye field	FEF	visual attention &voluntary eye movements
dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex	DLPFC	executive functions and planning