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  1. Investigate the different types of human eye movements.  For example, what is the difference between smooth pursuit eye movements and fixational eye movements?  What is the arrangement of extra-ocular muscles and how do they work together to generate eye movements?

  2. What types of visual information is relayed to the brain by the different classes of retinal ganglion cells?

  3. What is the mechanism of stereoscopic depth perception?  What are some other cues to depth perception that do not depend on binocular viewing?  Historical note: Leonardo DaVinci and other painters figured out most of them, and have used them in their paintings.

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