Recent investigations in vision science have revealed that eye movements play an active role beyond the mere stabilization of retinal images. Instead of serving a passive function, subtle ocular ...

“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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some teenagers with autism use a different set of eye-movement patterns from their non-autistic counterparts while recognizing faces, according to James McPartland, Ph.D., Harris Professor in the Yale ...

Humans and other mammals cycle through distinct sleep phases. One of them is easily recognized by the darting motion of the ...

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 ...