UCSF researcher Massimo Scanziani, PhD, discusses the study of rapid eye movement (REM) with physiology postdoctoral scholar Yuta Senzai, PhD. On the screen behind them are images showing eye ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Surrey found that imagined faces in objects – known as pareidolia – draw our attention more strongly than real averted gazes. While real faces guide attention via eye ...

There's ample evidence that eye contact is highly compelling: We're more attuned to faces whose eyes are trained on us than faces whose eyes are looking elsewhere. Even newborns pay more attention to ...

In the second half of the 20th century, some experts hypothesized that these REM movements may be following scenes in the dream world, but there was little way to test it, and the experiments that ...