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Vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) transfer characteristics are well documented in various species for frequencies up to 1 Hz. Natural active and passive head movements, however, have frequency components well above 1 Hz (Donaghy 1980)and accelerations exceeding several thousand deg/sec2. Stimulation in this range requires special apparatus which have become available only recently at reasonable costs and therefore only few published data exist. In this frequency range the peripheral vestibular organ is probably the exclusive sensory organ which contributes to compensatory eye movements; data on a possible contribution of neck afferents (cervico-ocular reflex COR), however, are still controversial.
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Böhmer, A., Henn, V., Suzuki, JI. (1982). Compensatory Eye Movements in the Monkey During High Frequency Sinusoidal Rotations. In: Roucoux, A., Crommelinck, M. (eds) Physiological and Pathological Aspects of Eye Movements. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8000-6_15
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