The 3-D Nature of Eye Movements

Each eye has 3 agonist/antagonist muscle pairs

This allows rotations about any axis in 3 dimensions; turning the eye right or left, up or down, and clockwise or counter clockwise.

We saw how horizontal saccades were produced.

What about saccades in the other two dimensions?

 


Copyright © 1996 Tutis Vilis and Douglas Tweed
University of Western Ontario
London Ontario Canada
Updated October 28, 2005

Comments welcome. Email to tutis.vilis@schulich.uwo.ca