Reading is a complex cognitive skill that predicts career prospects and social mobility throughout our lifetimes. For newcomers to a country, success often depends on learning to read fluently in a ...

When you go for a walk, how does your brain know the difference between a parked car and a moving car? This seemingly simple distinction is challenging because eye movements, such as the ones we make ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eye close-up The ways our eyes explore the world change subtly over time, affected by age and illness. A new study now suggests ...

When compared with fixation, both smooth pursuit (upper left) and saccadic (lower left) eye movements showed similar patterns of brain activation (red) and deactivation (blue). In contrast, a direct ...

Eye tracking allows studying aspects that cannot be seen, for example, the thinking processes of a student solving a mathematical problem. Researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) are the ...

Your eyes might be giving away secrets about your brain’s future that you don’t even know yet. Researchers have discovered that specific eye movement patterns can predict Alzheimer’s disease ...

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, ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...