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    The optokinetic reflex (OKR), also referred to as the optokinetic response, or optokinetic nystagmus (OKN), is a compensatory reflex that supports visual...
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  • An optokinetic drum—also called catford drum—is a rotating instrument to test vision in which individuals are seated facing the wall of the drum. The...
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  • After rotation of the eyes, the animal showed a reinforcement of the optokinetic response in the same direction as the moving visual input. Von Holst and Mittelstaedt...
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    brain stem, not in the visual cortex. Thus someone can have a normal optokinetic response and yet be cortically blind with no conscious visual sensation. Visual...
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  • including Columbiformes, Galliformes, and Gruiformes. Head-bobbing is an optokinetic response which stabilizes a bird's surroundings as it alternates between a...
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    has no influence over higher-order motion responses like the optomotor response or the optokinetic response, but may be more integral to lower-order cues...
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  • In animals, including humans, the startle response is a largely unconscious defensive response to sudden or threatening stimuli, such as sudden noise or...
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  • ISBN 978-0-19-953978-9. Sperry RW (December 1950). "Neural basis of the spontaneous optokinetic response produced by visual inversion". Journal of Comparative and Physiological...
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    International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision Nystagmus Optokinetic drum Orthoptist Marg, Elwin (1951). "Development of electro-oculography;...
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  • study in which the optokinetic drum was used to test the symptoms of the sopite syndrome showed increased mood changes in response to the visual cues...
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