What is the line of Gennari?
The fourth layer of the occipital cortex in area 17 is divided by a greatly thickened band of myelinated fibers, which is grossly visible and is called the line of Gennari .
This stripe also gives the name of striate cortex to that area of the brain. Brodmann’s areas 18 and 19 lack the line of Gennari.
