News tagged with eye movements

Dec 11, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 3

A new study may explain why the England soccer team keeps losing in penalty shootouts - and could help the team address the problem in time for the World Cup 2010. Research by the University of Exeter shows ...

Facial expressions show language barriers too

Aug 13, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (11) | 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- People from East Asia tend to have a tougher time than those from European countries telling the difference between a face that looks fearful versus surprised, disgusted versus angry, and ...

Why we learn more from our successes than our failures

Jul 29, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (7) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've ever felt doomed to repeat your mistakes, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory may have explained why: Brain cells may only learn from experience when we ...

Autism skews developing brain with synchronous motion and sound (w/Video)

Medicine & Health / Diseases

Mar 29, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 9

Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) tend to stare at people's mouths rather than their eyes. Now, an NIH-funded study in 2-year-olds with the social deficit disorder suggests why they might find mouths so attractive: ...

Involuntary maybe, but certainly not random

Feb 12, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 0

Our eyes are in constant motion. Even when we attempt to stare straight at a stationary target, our eyes jump and jiggle imperceptibly. Although these unconscious flicks, also known as microsaccades, had long ...

Discoveries shed new light on how the brain processes what the eye sees

Jun 02, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

Researchers at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience (CMBN) at Rutgers University in Newark have identified the need to develop a new framework for understanding "perceptual stability" and how ...

Tiny eye motions help us find where Waldo is

Feb 20, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- To recognize faces in a crowd, the brain employs tiny eye movements called saccades and microsaccades to help us search for objects of interest. While researchers know that these movements ...

Scientists discover neurons that 'mirror' the attention of others

May 18, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 2

Whether a monkey is looking to the left or merely watching another monkey looking that way, the same neurons in his brain are firing, according to researchers at the Duke University Medical Center.

New study suggests the brain predicts what eyes in motion will see

Aug 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

When the eyes move, objects in the line of sight suddenly jump to a different place on the retina, but the mind perceives the scene as stable and continuous. A new study reports that the brain predicts the consequences of ...

New study aims at early diagnosis for ADHD and Parkinson's disease

Jul 13, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Eye movement tests developed by Queen's University researchers to aid in understanding childhood brain development and healthy aging may also help in the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and detecting ...

Scientists shed new light on cause of inherited movement disorder

Jul 22, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

University of Utah School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues at University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center have found strong evidence that abnormal calcium signaling in neurons may play an important role ...

Study reveals we seek new targets during visual search, not during other visual behaviors

Apr 14, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

When we look at a scene in front of us, we need to focus on the important items and be able to ignore distracting elements. Studies have suggested that inhibition of return (in which our attention is less likely to return ...

Study suggests left-side bias in visual expertise

Apr 28, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

Facial recognition is not as automatic as it may seem. Researchers have identified specific areas in the brain devoted solely to picking out faces among other objects we encounter. Two specific effects have been established ...

Barrow scientists solve 200-year-old scientific debate involving visual illusions