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Locust brains are quite simple: on each side of the head is an optic lobe taking in information from the eyes and performing basic processing, and these lobes feed into the central midbrain, which carries out higher-level processing.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2010
According to Science Alert, sleeping octopuses do this because neurons firing in their optic lobes cause their pigment-containing cells to become active.
—Fox News, 28 Sep. 2019
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First Known Use
1844, in the meaning defined above
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“Optic lobe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/optic%20lobe. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
optic lobe
noun
: either of a pair of lobes in the midbrain that are concerned with vision
Medical Definition
optic lobe
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