The 3-D Nature of Eye Movements |
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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?
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