title: Binocular and monocular optokinetic nystagmus in cats to textured visual patterns.
abstract: Binocular and monocular optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) to the motion of textured visual patterns have been studied in alert cats. In the temporonasal monocular stimulation at a velocity above 10 deg/sec and in the nasotemporal monocular stimulation, the motion of random noise or a checkerboard elicited larger slow phase eye velocities than the motion of stripes with regularly or randomly arranged vertical bars. To temporonasal stimulation at a velocity below 10 deg/sec, there were no differences in slow phase eye velocities according to the types of the textures. Binocular OKN showed similar texture preferences as temporonasal monocular OKN.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009760:Nystagmus, Physiologic; D009900:Optic Nerve / Q000502:physiology; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology