Summary

1) Different motor systems adopt different forms of Donders' law

  • the head and arm act like a Fick gimbal
  • saccades (and pursuit eye movements) follow Listing's law
  • vergence eye movements act like a Helmholtz gimbal

2) Each optimizes different movements.


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Department of Physiology
University of Western Ontario
London Ontario Canada
Updated October 16, 1996

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