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Patterned eye movements, including movements evoked by vestibular and visual stimuli, saccadic eye movements and visual fixation, are performed by the six external eye muscles, four recti and two obliqui, and their activities are controlled by three cranial nerve nuclei from the most primitive cyclostome through primates.
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Székely, G., Matesz, C. (1993). The Control of Patterned Eye Movements: The Oculomotor, Trochlear, and Abducens Nuclei. In: The Efferent System of Cranial Nerve Nuclei: A Comparative Neuromorphological Study. Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology, vol 128. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77938-1_4
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