Stimulation of the vestibular organs generates in a limited range stimulation-proportional activity, which is modified under influence of the central nervous system by two mechanisms: (1) inhibition, (2) pattern centre interference. Inhibition appears to be a postnatal, acquired property as is shown by a series of measurements of eye deviations in newborn dogs and infants. Pattern centre activity presumably originates during the same period preceded by development of nystagnius.
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J.J. Groen (1965) studied this question.
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