Humans have a fascinating ability to recreate events in the mind's eye, in exquisite detail. Over 50 years ago, Donald Hebb and Ulrich Neisser, the forefathers of cognitive psychology, theorized that ...

A recent study suggests that zebrafish have four sleep substates, just like humans do—and one of them is akin to an afternoon ...

"We found that perceptual decision-making interfered with unrelated eye movements but not hand movements," Matsumiya says. "This demonstrates that nerve signals involved in making decisions ...

Tracking changes in eye movement could soon allow early detection of mild cognitive impairment, the pre-dementia stage that ...

Eye movements provide a sensitive window into cognitive processing during reading. In the present study, we investigated beginning readers’ longitudinal changes in temporal and spatial measures of eye ...

Eye movements are the most frequent movements that humans make and are often considered to be low cost because they have low metabolic costs. Thus, research has primarily focused on how eye movements ...

A new study reveals how childhood depression and visual attention to emotional faces mutually predict each other based on ...

People who sleep longer and spend more time in the rapid-eye-movement stage report richer, more emotionally charged dreams, according to converging evidence from federal health agencies and ...

Our ability to see starts with the light-sensitive photoreceptor cells in our eyes. A specific region of the retina, termed fovea, is responsible for sharp vision. Here, the color-sensitive cone ...

When our eyes move during REM sleep, we’re gazing at things in the dream world our brains have created, according to a new study by researchers at UC San Francisco. The findings shed light not only ...

Share on Pinterest What explains rapid eye movements during sleep? Researchers may be getting closer to an answer. Image credit: Alexandr Ivanets/Stocksy. When animals change their head direction as ...

“These eye movements are so tiny that we’re not even conscious of them, and yet our brains somehow can use the knowledge of the visual task to control them,” says study lead author Dr. Yen-Chu Lin, ...