title: Theoretical explanations of Listing's law and their implication for binocular vision.
abstract: We shall discuss three theoretical explanations of Listing's law for conjugate eye movements with the head fixed: the original argument by Helmholtz, which is "sensorimotor" in its attempt to optimize vision by using internal feedback from the oculomotor system, and two comparatively simple recent explanations based on either visual or oculomotor performance. These geometrical demonstrations shed some light on recent generalizations of Listing's law to vergent eye movements.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Physics, E.T.H., Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hepp
mesh_terms: D003290:Convergence, Ocular / Q000502:physiology; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000502:physiology; D012399:Rotation; D012438:Saccades / Q000502:physiology; D015348:Vision, Binocular / Q000502:physiology*