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Field experiments show less than expected response to gaze of others

(Medical Xpress) -- It’s sort of conventional folk wisdom, if someone in a crowd starts staring at something, soon someone else will too. Eventually the whole crowd will start staring, even if they don’t ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Wide-eyed fear expressions may help us—and others—to locate threats

Wide-eyed expressions that typically signal fear may enlarge our visual field and mutually enhance others' ability to locate threats, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Ps ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Are people really staring at you?

(Medical Xpress)—People often think that other people are staring at them even when they aren't research led by the University of Sydney has found.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Our primitive reflexes may be more sophisticated than they appear, study shows

Supposedly 'primitive' reflexes may involve more sophisticated brain function than previously thought, according to researchers at Imperial College London.

Neuroscience created Feb 14, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover neurological link to loneliness

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.

Neuroscience created Oct 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study shows why some types of multitasking are more dangerous than others

In a new study that has implications for distracted drivers, researchers found that people are better at juggling some types of multitasking than they are at others.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jul 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Babies are born with 'intuitive physics' knowledge, researcher says

While it may appear that infants are helpless creatures that only blink, eat, cry and sleep, one University of Missouri researcher says that studies indicate infant brains come equipped with knowledge of "intuitive physics."

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study: Babies try lip-reading in learning to talk

Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too.

Autism spectrum disorders created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Infants trained to concentrate show added benefits

Although parents may have a hard time believing it, even infants can be trained to improve their concentration skills. What's more, training babies in this way leads to improvements on other, unrelated tasks.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Similar structures for face selectivity in human and monkey brains

(Medical Xpress) -- Face recognition and the interpretation of facial expressions and gaze direction play a key role in guiding the social behavior of human beings, and new study results point to similar mechanisms in macaques. ...

Neuroscience created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

More than just looking: Role of tiny eye movements explained

Have you ever wondered whether it's possible to look at two places at once? Because our eyes have a specialized central region with high visual acuity and good color vision, we must always focus on one spot at a time in order ...

Neuroscience created Feb 21, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study says flashing digital billboards are too distracting

Many drivers say the large digital billboards flashing ads every few seconds along Bay Area freeways are just too bright and too distracting. And they may be right.

Health created Jan 08, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

3D manufacturing: Printing a new nose

The suffering caused by the loss of a nose must be indescribable. In terms of function, a sense of smell is perhaps less important than the ability to see, hear and eat - and we can breathe through our mouth ...

Other created Nov 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Infant eye movement and cognition

Interactions between infants and their environment are limited because of the infants' poor motor abilities. So investigating infant cognition is no easy task. Which sensory event is the result of the infant's ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Don't look now - I'm trying to think

Children with autism look away from faces when thinking, especially about challenging material, according to new research from Northumbria University.

Autism spectrum disorders created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gaze

Gaze is a psychoanalytical term brought into popular usage by Jacques Lacan to describe the anxious state that comes with the awareness that one can be viewed. The psychological effect, Lacan argues, is that the subject loses some sense of autonomy upon realizing that he or she is a visible object. This concept is bound with his theory of the mirror stage, in which a child encountering a mirror realizes that he or she has an external appearance. Lacan suggests that this gaze effect can similarly be produced by any conceivable object such as a chair or a television screen. This is not to say that the object behaves optically as a mirror; instead it means that the awareness of any object can induce an awareness of also being an object.

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