Focused In
With the line of sight The origin for both muscles is medial to their insertions so elevation and depression may require the lateral rectus muscles to compensate for the slight adduction inherent in the contraction of those muscles requiring MLF activity as well The left panel of this figure shows a painting of a woman’s face and the right panel shows lines traced over the painting These lines represent the Focused In in the gaze of a person looking at another face Saccades are rapid conjugate movements of the eyes to survey a complicated visual stimulus or to follow a moving visual stimulus This image represents the shifts in gaze typical of a person studying a face Notice the concentration of gaze on the major features of the face and the large number of paths traced between.