Saccadic eye movements are rapid, ballistic shifts in gaze that allow the fovea to sample different parts of a visual scene, facilitating high-resolution perception. Research in this area has revealed ...

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 ...

Saccadic adaptation is a fundamental process by which the oculomotor system recalibrates the rapid, ballistic movements of the eyes to ensure accurate fixation on targets. This adaptive capability is ...

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 ...

The characteristic eye movements that give rapid eye movement (REM) sleep its name represent gaze shifts in the dream world of sleeping mice, according to a new study. The findings reveal an ...

Staring into the eyes of Mona Lisa is unnerving. Regardless of your vantage point, Mona Lisa appears to shift her gaze to make eye contact and stare you down. What nonverbal cues do the movements of ...

As we age, there is a decrease in the number of neurons in the basal ganglia, cerebellum and spinal cord that can negatively ...

The visual perception of optical stimuli demands high performance from the brain. Every second, the eyes absorb more than 10 ...

Every morning, I wake up hoping there will be breaking news that helps us better understand the inner workings of the cerebellum (Latin for "little brain"). The cerebellum is primarily known for its ...

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 ...