The occipital lobe, the smallest brain lobe, is located beneath the occipital bone at the back of the skull, sitting under the parietal lobe and above the temporal lobe. This region of the brain is home to the brain’s visual cortex, which enables you to see and process visual stimuli, measure distance, determine color properties, and transmit information to other areas of the brain that assign meaning to and remember what you see. However, researchers now believe that the lobe’s functions may extend beyond those responsibilities by receiving information from other brain lobes, although the extent of this functional collaborates remain unknown.