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Cutting the optic nerve would lead to loss of vision in the affected eye.Damage to either optic tract would lead to loss of HALF the vision in in either eye (due to the crossing over of tracts in the optic chiasm). so you would loose half the visual field in either eye. (neoroscience student).

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