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  • Title: Orientation of Listing's plane during static tilt in young and older human subjects.
    Author: Furman JM, Schor RH.
    Journal: Vision Res; 2003 Jan; 43(1):67-76. PubMed ID: 12505606.
    Abstract:
    Three-dimensional eye positions, when expressed as rotation vectors, are constrained to lie in a head-fixed Listing's plane. The offset and orientation of Listing's plane changes when the head is tilted. To assess the influence of age on this phenomenon, young (less than 30 years old) and older (>65 years old) human subjects were seated upright, pitched nose up and nose down, and rolled right ear down and left ear down. Listing's plane was computed from eye movements recorded using a dual scleral search coil while subjects scanned a complex visual scene. During pitch, Listing's plane counterpitched with respect to the head, while during roll, it translated in a manner consistent with "ocular counterrolling". There was no significant difference in this reorientation of Listing's plane between the young and older subjects. The only obvious difference between the two age groups was that the "thickness" of Listing's plane was greater in the older subjects. This suggests that aging has a small, but definite, influence on Listing's law.
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