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This lobe is located at the posterior end of each cerebral hemisphere. This part of the brain contains the visual processing center of the brain as it contains most of the visual cortex. This cortex has specialized areas for different visual tasks including visuo-spatial processing, motion perception and color differentiation.
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Occipital Lobe
Occipital lobe epilepsy was defined as having ictal semiology identical to occipital lobe seizures, which include eye deviation or eye blinking with staring, ictal vomiting, or visual hallucination (Williamson et al., 1992), and interictal paroxysmal waves in the posterior derivation.
