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Human Visual System

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Nick Delrose
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BioRender Team
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Description:

This template shows how the visual fields of the left and right eyes overlap to create a binocular field, and traces the path of visual information through the optic nerve, optic chiasm, and optic tract to the left and right visual cortex. A top-down schematic of the brain shows the crossing of optic fibers at the chiasm.

Updated 
August 2026

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What does the Human Visual System template show?

This template shows how the visual fields of the left and right eyes overlap to create a binocular field, and traces the path of visual information through the optic nerve, optic chiasm, and optic tract to the left and right visual cortex. A top-down schematic of the brain shows the crossing of optic fibers at the chiasm.

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