Adolescent girls who consistently avoid looking at negative or critical social cues may be at a higher risk for developing ...

Multiple studies have linked cellphone use to an increased risk of car accidents. Learn how new research suggests delays in ...

Talking while driving is widely recognized as a major source of distraction, but the specific ways conversation interferes ...

Our ability to see starts with the light-sensitive photoreceptor cells in our eyes. A specific region of the retina, termed fovea, is responsible for sharp vision. Here, the color-sensitive cone ...

Assistive devices that enable those who can no longer move their bodies to control wheelchairs or communicate by moving only ...

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 ...

When our eyes move during REM sleep, we’re gazing at things in the dream world our brains have created, according to a new study by researchers at UC San Francisco. The findings shed light not only ...

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 ...

When tracking a sleeping person's eye movements, you typically have to stick hard-wired electrodes onto their face. Soon, however, an unobtrusive flexible mask could do the job – while also measuring ...