Our brains take rhythmic snapshots of the world as we walk
For decades, psychology departments around the world have studied human behavior in darkened laboratories that restrict natural movement.
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For decades, psychology departments around the world have studied human behavior in darkened laboratories that restrict natural movement.
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The rapid eye movements during a mouse's REM sleep provide more insight into the mechanism behind dreaming, a new study finds.
Oct 12, 2022
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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 into how we dream, but ...
Aug 25, 2022
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Many professional athletes who have sustained head trauma in sports have lingering symptoms that affect everyday life, including depression, dizziness, difficulty focusing the gaze and balance problems. Little help has been ...
Apr 4, 2022
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Researchers are revisiting an age-old question in baseball: Do batters actually keep their eye on the ball?
Aug 12, 2021
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Those sudden tantrums displayed on court by former US tennis player John McEnroe are legendary—but so too are those of Nick Kyrgios, Alexander Zverev, Serena Williams and Co. And their tennis rackets certainly bear witness ...
Jun 29, 2020
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In a study published today in Current Biology, Arne Meyer, John O'Keefe and Jasper Poort used a lightweight eye-tracking system composed of miniature video cameras and motion sensors to record head and eye movements in mice ...
May 14, 2020
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We often look to people's faces for signs of how they're thinking or feeling, trying to gauge whether their eyes are narrowed or widened, whether the mouth is turned up or down. But findings published in the June 2019 issue ...
Jun 13, 2019
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Where are baseball batters looking during the fraction of a second when a pitched ball is in their air? Their visual tracking strategies differ depending on whether they're swinging at the pitch, reports a study in the August ...
Aug 3, 2017
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The number of infants who develop flat head syndrome—deformational plagiocephaly—has increased significantly since the start of the Back to Sleep campaign to combat Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in the 1990s.
Jun 26, 2017
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