Wondering about the wandering cyclopean eye

Arguments against recent claims (Erkelens, Muijs & van Ee (1996). Vision Research, 36, 2141-2147; Mansfield & Legge (1996). Vision Research, 36, 27-41. (1997), Vision Research, 37, 1610-1613) that the position of the cyclopean eye is stimulus specific are presented. Critical to these arguments are the differences between relative and absolute visual direction tasks (Howard (1982). Human visual orientation. Wiley, New York; Ono & Mapp (1995). A restatement and modification of Wells-Hering's laws of visual direction. Perception, 24, 237-252), and between physical and perceptual descriptions of visual direction (Ono, Ohtsuka & Lillakas (1998). Proceedings of the international workshop on advances in research on visual cognition, Tsukuba, Japan (pp. 125-136); Ono & Lillakas (1997). Proceedings of the fourth international display workshop, Nagoya, Japan (pp. 831-834)).