  We demonstrate that the presence of a velocity-dependent term in the
phenomenological optical potential simulates a source of nonlocality. This is
achieved by showing that, in the interior of the nucleus, the nonlocal wave
functions are different from the corresponding local ones obtained in the
absence of the velocity-dependent term in accordance with the Perey effect. It
is also shown that the enhancement or suppression of the nonlocal wave function
is energy as well as angular momentum dependent. The latter is in line with the
results of previous works that introduced parity dependent terms in the
conventional optical potential.
