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Eye fixations in daily life are controlled by two types of eye movements. Saccades rotate the two eyes in the same direction (i.e., conjugately; Fig. 11.1A), such as during reading and scanning of a scene, whereas vergence movements rotate the two eyes in opposite-directions (i.e., disjunctively; Fig. 11.1B), such as during tracking of objects moving in depth. Together, they provide control of binocular fixation in three-dimensional space (Ciuffreda and Tannen, 1995).
Keywords
- Transient Divergence
- Fixation Disparity
- Vergence Movement
- Ramp Stimulus
- Nucleus Reticularis Tegmenti Pontis
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Hung, G.K., Ciuffreda, K.J. (2002). Models of Saccade-Vergence Interactions. In: Hung, G.K., Ciuffreda, K.J. (eds) Models of the Visual System. Topics in Biomedical Engineering International Book Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5865-8_11
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