Sixteen subjects sat in a rotating optokinetic drum and were instructed to stare moving vertical stripes inside of the optokinetic drum. Speeds of the stripes were five visual angles (12, 24, 36, 48, 60 deg/s). EEGs and EOGs were measured. EEG epochs were averaged at onset of slow phases (pursuits) of the optokinetic nystagmus (OKN). The positive component of latency of about 100 ms appeared predominantly at the occipital region of 15 subjects in all conditions. The positive component might be the same as the lambda response that appears in EFRP to a stationary object.
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