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An injury to the occipital lobe will likely impair the function of the _____.

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primary visual cortex

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The occipital lobes are the center of our visual perception system. They are not particularly vunerable to injury due to their location in the back of the brain, although any significant trauma to the brain could produce subtle changes to our visual-perceptual system, which cause defects and scotomas of the field of vision.

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