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Electroencephalogram Potentials evoked by Accelerated Visual Motion

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CHANGES in the brightness and the spatial or temporal pattern of visual stimuli evoke small correlated changes in the electroencephalogram (EEG) potentials recorded from the occipital scalp and can be revealed by averaging the responses to repeated stimuli1–5. We have investigated the effects of changes in the velocity of patterned stimuli and have found what seem to be analogous evoked responses to acceleration of the retinal image.

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  1. Department of Communication, University of Keele,

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  2. Department of Physiology, University of Leiden, The Netherlands

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MACKAY, D., RIETVELD, W. Electroencephalogram Potentials evoked by Accelerated Visual Motion. Nature 217, 677–678 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217677a0

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