[Interaction of the vestibulo-oculomotor and visual systems in young animals]

In two-month old rabbits rotated with closed and opened eyes during 20 or 140 sec, it was found that the interaction of vestibulooculomotor and visual systems depended on maturity as well as on the duration of the simultaneous action of these systems. The nystagmus is organized by the optic stimulus which increases the duration of the nystagmus and decreases the postnystagmus, increases the number and amplitude of the eye jerks, aids to maturity of the vestibulooculomotor reflex and organizes the beginning of the nystagmus, increases the number of mature nystagmus the first jerks of which have got the highest amplitude.