The brain evolved to navigate a dynamic and uncertain world, but the mechanisms underlying ethologically-relevant behavioral strategies remain unclear. In the real-world, such strategies are shaped ...

Perception requires active sampling of the environment. What part of the physical world can be perceived is limited by the sensory system’s biophysical setup, but might be further constrained by the ...

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The eyes may reveal how experiences are recalled, according to new Baycrest research that suggests that shifts in eye movements play a critical role in memory retrieval. The findings offer new insight ...

Rapid side-to-side eye movements can help stabilize posture, avoid falls and maintain balance for people with Parkinson's disease, just as they can for healthy people. This seemingly counterintuitive ...

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, theorised that ...

When compared with fixation, both smooth pursuit (upper left) and saccadic (lower left) eye movements showed similar patterns of brain activation (red) and deactivation (blue). In contrast, a direct ...

Your eyes may reveal more than you think. True Touch Lifestyle/Shutterstock For most of human history if you wanted to know what was going on behind someone’s eyes you had to make your best guess. But ...

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 ...

Have you ever noticed how much easier it is to focus when you’ve had a chance to move around? That’s no coincidence. Movement integration is a practical way to support attention and improve ...