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Science 15 April 1966:
Vol. 152. no. 3720, pp. 382 - 383
DOI: 10.1126/science.152.3720.382
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Optomotor Response in Human Infants to Apparent Motion: Evidence of Innateness

Edward S. Tauber 1 and Sandra Koffler 1

1 Department of Psychology, Yeshiva University, New York

Human infants were placed inside a stationary cylinder containing a columnar pattern like that used to elicit the optokinetic reflex. By sequential illumnination of the columns, the pattern was made to appear to rotate. Optokinetic nystagmus was clearly evoked in 64.7 percent of the subjects, with a weak-positive response in an additional 11.8 percent.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Examination for Optokinetic Nystagmus in Sleep and Waking.
R. Gardner and E. D. Weitzman (1967)
Arch Neurol 16, 415-420
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