(A review of literature: 271 titles.) Three chief lines of investigation may be distinguished. (1) Henschen's view that retinal points are projected upon the cortex in a circumscribed and point by point way, rather than diffuse as urged by von Monakow, tends to be strengthened by the bulk of clinical findings in connection with war cases. Localization in the area striata is favored by many. As to the cortical representation of color vision no definite results have been obtained. (2) Brain localization of higher optical processes, such as depth-perception, form-perception, etc., although much studied, is not in an advanced stage. It has been urged that the physiologist needs here to employ psychological methods in addition to his anatomical and pathological technique. (3) In the light of work on visual disturbances, cerebral localization in general is coming to be recognized as decidedly an open question. For instance, Goldstein makes the interesting suggestion that the two extreme views of von Monakow and Henschen may each be both right and wrong; as fibers from a specific retinal part may run not only to a localizable projection center but also diffuse more generally. Furthermore "we are likely to be fascinated by histological results when it is possible that electrochemical processes are the basis for function."