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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