When you go for a walk, how does your brain know the difference between a parked car and a moving car? This seemingly simple ...

The eyes may reveal how experiences are recalled, according to new Baycrest research that suggests that shifts in eye ...

Motion created by eye movements helps the brain judge distance and movement in 3D space, offering new insights into how stable vision works.

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 ...

“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, ...

Your eyes might be giving away secrets about your brain’s future that you don’t even know yet. Researchers have discovered that specific eye movement patterns can predict Alzheimer’s disease ...

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 ...

A very subtle and seemingly random type of eye movement called ocular drift can be influenced by prior knowledge of the expected visual target, suggesting a surprising level of cognitive control over ...