Visual Processing | Strengthen How the Brain Understands Visual Information
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What Is Visual Processing?
Visual processing is the brain’s remarkable ability to interpret what the eyes see. After light enters the eyes and converts to neural signals, this information travels along the optic nerve to the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus, and then to the visual cortex in the occipital lobe—the brain’s visual command center.
From there, the brain performs a complex series of cognitive operations, interpreting color, shape, motion, and spatial relationships. These signals then integrate with other brain regions to support reading, writing, visual memory, attention, and reasoning.
When visual processing skills are weak, learners may struggle with tasks such as copying from the board, reading fluently, or recognizing patterns. Strengthening these skills helps students build a solid foundation for academic success and lifelong learning.
The Visual Processing Collection
Dr. Erica Warren’s Visual Processing Collection offers a comprehensive set of multisensory workbooks, games, and digital activities designed to strengthen key visual skills. These engaging resources target visual discrimination, tracking, spatial reasoning, and figure-ground awareness, and more helping learners improve reading fluency, handwriting, and overall comprehension. Each product provides a playful, evidence-informed approach to support visual development at any age.
What are the Different Types of Visual Processing?
- Visual Discrimination and Directionality
- Visual Memory and Visualization
- Visual Sequencing
- Visual Closure
- Visual Reasoning
- Visual-Spatial
- Visual Figure-Ground
- Visual-Motor
- Visual Synthesis
- Visual Form Constancy
- Visual Tracking (this is not technically considered visual processing - rather the control of one's physical eye)
How Does Visual Processing Impact Learning?
This skill enables students to make sense of nonverbal cues, symbols, letters, numerals, pictures, diagrams, and graphs to name a few. Those that struggle with visual processing weaknesses often experience confusion or overwhelm. It is important to strengthen this core cognitive skill as it is the foundation for reading, spelling, writing, and math.