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Listing's law states that visual directions of sight are related to rotations of the eye so that all rotation axes lie in a plane. The geometry ofSO(3) indicates several plausible algorithms how the human brain could relate vision to eye movements satisfying Listing's law, and suggests crucial experiments which we have carried out.

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Communicated by A. Jaffe

Dedicated to Res Jost and Arthur Wightman

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Hepp, K. On Listing's law. Commun.Math. Phys. 132, 285–292 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02278012

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