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·November 18, 2016·5 min read

Toddlers With Autism Don’t Avoid Eye Contact, But Do Miss Its Significance

A new study reports young children with autism don't avoid eye contact on purposes, but do miss the significance of the social information in others' eyes.

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·May 13, 2021·3 min read

Adolescents and Older Adults Lack Attention in Social Situations

Adolescents and older adults pay less attention to social cues in real-world interactions than young adults.

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·November 11, 2015·4 min read

Can’t Take My Eyes Off You: Why We Look at Pretty Faces

A new study reports our brains may reward us for looking at pretty faces.

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·May 14, 2020·3 min read

Mouse and human eye movements share important similarity

New eye-tracking technology monitors naturalistic eye movements in mice and discovers similarities and differences with human eye movement.

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·March 22, 2016·5 min read

Stars In Your Eyes: People Have Limited Cognitive Control of Eye Movements While Watching Movies

According to researchers, movies may control our attention more than we previously thought.

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·December 22, 2017·5 min read

Beauty is in the Eye of the Beer Holder

A new eye tracking study reveals intoxicated men spend less time examining women's faces compared to their sober counterparts, and spend more time looking at 'sexual' body parts.

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·August 19, 2015·6 min read

Creatures of Habit: How Neurons Weigh Behavioral Cost and Reward

According to a new study, habit formation is driven by neurons in the striatum which represent both the cost and reward of the behavior.

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·October 29, 2018·4 min read

Link Between What We See and How We Remember ‘Breaks’ As We Age

A new study reports older adults exhibit greater eye movements, but this does not correlate with an increase in brain activity patterns. Researchers say, while the eyes and brain are taking in environmental information, the link to creating memories of what is seen weakens over a life time.

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·September 4, 2018·3 min read

Bully or Leader? Even Infants Can Tell the Difference

Study confirms infants can detect differences in power between individuals and expect those differences to endure over time. Researchers say, at 21 months old, a child can distinguish between respect based power asserted by a leader and fear based power asserted by bullies.

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·July 29, 2013·3 min read

Impaired Visual Signals Might Contribute to Schizophrenia Symptoms

Researchers discover a potential explanation for some of the symptoms of schizophrenia by tracking eye movements while patients played a simple video game.

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·July 9, 2019·4 min read

New technique developed to detect autism in children

Children with autism scan the faces of other people differently to neurotypical children. A new eye-tracking technique that uses facial areas of interest could help with the early detection of ASD.