occipital lobes

significant functional aspect of the occipital lobe is
1:contain the primary visual cortex

2:the part of the brain where dream come from

Occipital Lobe also contain most anatomical region of visual cortex

or its call Primary Visual cortex that was = to Brodmann Area 17 or in other word

Visual one(V1)

V1 is located at the median side of Occipital Lobe

within the Calcarine Sulcus

it full extent of V1 often continueous onto the posterior pole of the Occipital Lobe

n also call striate cortex that can be identified by a large stripe of

myelin, the Stria of Gennari

visually driven rigions outside V1 is called 

Extrasriate Cortex

that have many of it n it also have been specialised for

-different visual tasks

-visuospatial processing

-color discrimination

-motion percoption

p/s:name derives from the

everlying Occipital bone,

that named from the latin

oc-+caput, "back of the head"