The gaze plays a central role in everyday social interactions. Our capacity for instant communication relies on the brain’s ability to detect and interpret the direction of others’ gaze. How does our ...

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 study. Listening to something while ...

HANOVER, NH – Whether someone is looking directly at you or not when they are angry or afraid has an effect on how your brain interprets those expressions, says a group of Dartmouth researchers. In ...

Wollaston's gaze illusion (1824) is one of the most powerful demonstrations that we process faces holistically, rather than feature by feature. In the demo that I often present in my seminar on ...

Gaze direction is significant for the processing of visual information from the human face. Researchers have discovered that the visual system of the brain processes another person's face more ...

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

Researchers at McGill University have confirmed a long-standing hypothesis: a simple glance can convey information about a person's state of mind without a single word being spoken. They suggest that ...

New research from Fujita Health University reveals that talking can subtly delay the eyes’ ability to detect and stabilize on ...