Over recent decades, research has increasingly supported the notion that specific patterns of eye movements can modulate memory retrieval processes. In particular, bilateral saccadic eye movements are ...

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 ...

If you quickly move a camera from object to object, the abrupt shift between the two points causes a motion smear that might give you nausea. Our eyes, however, do movements like these two or three ...

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 ...

Drug development for neurodegenerative diseases is struggling with one of its most intractable barriers: the slow, variable, and subjective nature of clinical endpoints Traditional assessment scales, ...

EMDR is a psychotherapy technique designed to relieve the distress associated with disturbing memories. Short for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, it involves recalling a specific ...

Szonya Durant works for Royal Holloway, University of London and consults for Paravizion Ltd. She received funding from the EPSRC and the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research. For most of human ...