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 ...

"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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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, ...

Does rapid eye movement during sleep reveal where you’re looking at in the scenery of dreams, or are they simply the result of random jerks of our eye muscles? Since the discovery of REM sleep in the ...