Neuroscience

Gaze direction affects sensitivity to sounds

Listening to something while looking in a different direction can slow down reaction times while the brain works harder to suppress distractions, finds a new UCL study.

Psychology & Psychiatry

A sixth sense? How we can tell that eyes are watching us

We've all had that feeling that somebody is watching us – even if we're not looking directly at their eyes. Sometimes we even experience a feeling of being watched by someone completely outside our field of vision. But ...

Autism spectrum disorders

Remote eye gaze tracking as a marker for autism

A study to be published in the April 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports that eye tracking can differentiate children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from ...

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