Why do we often fail to spot objects in plain sight? Scientists say the brain’s visual search system, driven by attention and ...

You scan a surface – a kitchen counter, a desk, the “everything” drawer – until the missing item appears. But the brain ...

Illustration of the induction (1) and appearance (2) of an afterimage, as well as its movement across eye movements (3) in egocentric visual space (top row). Note that despite the perception of ...

Our eyes alone do not provide us with a continuous and stable view of the world. They jump several times each second in rapid movements called saccades. Because the eye projects the world onto the ...

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 ...

Our eyes are constantly moving, even if we're not aware of it. These rapid movements, called saccades, are essential for our vision. A recent study reveals how these saccades influence what we see—or ...

A gently lobbed baseball is easy to see. The same ball, however, can seem to vanish from the hand of a skilled pitcher, whizzing invisibly into the catcher's mitt. Given enough acceleration, moving ...

Our eyes perform lightning-fast movements called saccades multiple times per second, yet we never perceive the resulting motion blur. A new study reveals that this “invisibility” happens because the ...

When a camera whips around from one point to another, most people expect the fast movement to result in a blurry smear. What they don’t realize, however, is that our own eyes engage in a similar kind ...

How do predators use their vision to both navigate through the terrain whilst tracking prey running for its life? Pursuing prey through a complex environment is a major challenge for the visual system ...

When sitting still, eye saccades are used to track targets of interest but how are saccades used when pursuing prey while simultaneously navigating through complex environments? To solve this question ...