CYBERNETICS OF OCULAR MOVEMENT

Cybernetics of ocular movement.

CYBERNETICS has been defined as "the control of machines by machines instead of by men" (Stanley-Jones, 1957). Its meaning embraces also the pattern of that control. A cardinal notion is the concept of feed-back. This may be simply explained by reference to the most familiar example of cybernetic control, the thermostat of an electric iron. An electric iron is a machine for converting electrici...

Control of ocular movement.

The ocular-motor system is organized to concentrate the images received by the eye upon the fovea, the most sensitive area of the retina. The acquisition and maintenance of object images upon the fovea, together with their stabilization during head movements, constitute the basic roles of human eye movement. These movements are simply motor outputs in response to sensory (primarily visual) inpu...

Cybernetics: Cybernetics and the Theory of Knowledge

Cybernetics

pared, and the successive stages of implantation and placental formation in various mammals are compared with those in man. Although the authors have quite successfully attempted to keep the book as short as possible, they have succeeded in putting much of great value in it with the result that it can be highly recommended. No biological library is complete without a copy of this excellent acco...

Cybernetics and Second-Order Cybernetics

I. Historical Development of Cybernetics.......................................................1 A. Origins.....................................................................................1 B. Second Order Cybernetics............................................................2 C. Cybernetics Today.....................................................................4 II. Relational Concepts...