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·December 16, 2014·4 min read

New Technology Advances Eye Tracking as Biomarker for Brain Function and Brain Injury

New technology has been developed which can assess the location and impact of a brain injury by tracking eye movements.

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·October 4, 2014·2 min read

Pain Words Stand Out More for Those Experiencing It

People suffering from chronic pain pay more attention to pain related words than those who are pain free, a new study reports.

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·March 13, 2014·3 min read

Human Brain Hard Wired to Link What We See with What We Do

Researchers find evidence of a specialized mechanism for spatial self-awareness that combines visual cues with body motion.

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·January 15, 2014·4 min read

More Than Meets the Eye

Researchers find that when it comes to vision, the brain can perform more than one function without sacrificing accuracy or time.

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Autism Featured

·November 6, 2013·4 min read

New Study Identifies Signs of Autism in the First Months of Life

Using eye tracking, researchers discover children who later go on to be diagnosed with Autism showed declining attention to other people's eyes from the age of two months.

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Featured Psychology

·October 31, 2013·6 min read

Seeing in the Dark: Most People Can See Their Body’s Movement in the Absence of Light

Using computerized eye trackers, researchers discover at least 50 percent of people can see the movement of their own hand in total darkness.

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Featured Psychology

·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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Autism Featured

·March 20, 2013·3 min read

Atypical Brain Circuits May Cause Slower Gaze Shifting in Infants Who Later Develop Autism

Infants at 7 months of age who go on to develop autism are slower to reorient their gaze and attention from one object to another when compared to 7-month-olds who do not develop autism, and this behavioral pattern is in part explained by atypical brain circuits.

The image shows a participant undergoing an eye tracking experiment.

Featured Psychology

·February 18, 2013·2 min read

Eye Movements Reveal Impaired Reading in Schizophrenia

A new study which looked at eye movement in patients with Schizophrenia provides evidence of difficulties in reading fluency. The findings could help to provide early identification of the mental illness for some individuals.

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·October 25, 2012·2 min read

Loneliness? It’s All a State of Mind

Researchers from UCL have found that lonely people have less grey matter in a part of the brain associated with decoding eye gaze and other social cues.

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·August 6, 2012·2 min read

Pupil Dilation Reveals Sexual Orientation

Researchers used a specialized infrared lens to measure pupillary changes to participants watching erotic videos. Pupils widened most to videos of people who participants found attractive, thereby revealing where they were on the sexual spectrum from heterosexual to homosexual.

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·July 13, 2012·3 min read

Controlling Your Computer With Your Eyes

Millions of people suffering from multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, muscular dystrophy, spinal cord injuries or amputees could soon interact with their computers and surroundings using just their eyes, thanks to a new device that costs less than £40 (~$63).