The region of cortex lying between primary visual and primary/ somatosensory cortex, and involved in complex aspects of navigation and visual recognition. Within this part of the cortex is the parietal lobe, an area comprising about a fifth of the cerebral cotex, which can be divided into three segments: the postcentral gyrus, the inferior parietal lobe, and the superior parietal lobe.
See Agnosia, Basal ganglia (development), Brain damage studies, Cerebral cortex (or pallium), Cortical lobes, Dorsal visual pathway (or stream), Efference copy (or corollary discharge), Frontal eye fields (FEF), Glial cells, Gustation, Inferior parietal lobe (IPL), Occipital cortex (or lobe), Primary visual cortex (V1), Somatosensory cortex, Premotor cortex, Pulvinar, Ventral visual pathway (or stream), Two visual systems hypothesis