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Teens with depression show unique eye movement patterns linked to memory and attention problems

A new study published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging has found that adolescents with major depressive disorder display unusual eye movement patterns, which are linked to cognitive problems such ...
The Conversation

Rapid eye movements in sleeping mice match where they are looking in their dreams, new research finds

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 Conversation

Eye movements could be the missing link in our understanding of memory

Humans have a fascinating ability to recreate events in the mind’s eye, in exquisite detail. Over 50 years ago, Donald Hebb and Ulrich Neisser, the forefathers of cognitive psychology, theorised that ...
Healio

‘EyePhone’ app evaluates eye movement to detect vestibular strokes

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A smartphone app accurately identified a type of rapid uncontrollable eye movement associated with stroke. The ...
Medical Xpress

Looking back in time: How eye movements shape memory recall

The eyes may reveal how experiences are recalled, according to new Baycrest research that suggests that shifts in eye movements play a critical role in memory retrieval. The findings offer new insight ...