Adolescent girls who consistently avoid looking at negative or critical social cues may be at a higher risk for developing ...

Talking while driving is widely recognized as a major source of distraction, but the specific ways conversation interferes with the earliest stages of visual processing have remained largely unclear.

Emerging evidence shows that small involuntary eye movements (saccades and microsaccades) are a promising new tool for shedding light on the hidden workings of mental processes like attention and ...

Saccadic eye movements are rapid, ballistic shifts in gaze that allow the fovea to sample different parts of a visual scene, facilitating high-resolution perception. Research in this area has revealed ...

Assistive devices that enable those who can no longer move their bodies to control wheelchairs or communicate by moving only ...

Multiple studies have linked cellphone use to an increased risk of car accidents. Learn how new research suggests delays in ...

Every time we look at an object or a picture, our eyes make tiny jumps called saccades, followed by brief pauses known as fixations. These rapid movements are guided by the brain, helping us process ...

Cerebellum (Latin for "little brain") in red. Source: Wikimedia/Life Sciences Database Neuroscientists at the University of Rochester have masterminded a rapid eye movement test that can detect ...

"Seeing eye to eye" is an expression of harmony, but do different people literally see the same thing when they view the same external world? The rapid eye movements during a mouse's REM sleep provide ...