A weekly deep dive into the hidden architecture of your mind. V2: Where Early Vision Starts Becoming Interpretation Where It Lives V2, also known as the secondary visual cortex, the prestriate cortex, or Brodmann area 18, is located immediately adjacent to V1 in the occipital lobe. It forms a thin, horseshoe-shaped band that surrounds V1 on both the medial (toward the midline) and lateral (away from the midline) surfaces of the brain. While V1 lines the calcarine sulcus, V2