In a study conducted by UC Berkeley scientists, research shows that for the brain to process fast moving objects, the V5 region of the visual cortex accurately predicts where and how these objects move.The part of the brain responsible for processing visual information is the Visual Cortex. It can be found in the back of the brain in the Occipital Lobe. Each hemishphere of the brain has its own visual cortex with the right one processing signals from the left visual field and the left one processing signals from the right visual field.
The visual cortex can be grouped into 5 regions; V1, V2, V3, V4, and V5. Each region is responsible for a specific role in visual processing such as spatial recognition and information (V1), long term and short term visual memory (V2), processing of motion- coherent and global (V3) color and shape recognition (V4) and tracking of moving objects (V5).
Finding out specific roles of each region is still an ongoing process and the recent UC Berkeley study show that the V5 region is important in tracking fast moving objects where the speed of the object may be faster than how the brain processes the information.
The V5 region of the visual cortex is also known as the Middle Temporal (MT). This region is believed to be responsible for the processing of motion and moving objects.
