Its a very rigorously done report and the first demonstration of this in someone with apparent total absence of a striate cortex, the visual processing region, said Dr .
The optic nerve transmits retinal information to the lateral geniculate, which relays the information to the primary visual cortex (striate cortex or V1).
No new neurons were detected in the fourth area, the striate cortex, a region at the back of the head that simply processes visual information from the eyes and passes it on to .