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 ...

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 ...

Eye-contact has a significant impact on interpersonal evaluation, and online job interviews are no exception. In addition to the quality of a resume, the direction of the interviewee's gaze might help ...

Does eye contact always attract attention? Not in every case, as a research team at the University of Würzburg's Institute of Psychology has recently shown. Why not? Because context matters. In a ...

As we age, there is a decrease in the number of neurons in the basal ganglia, cerebellum and spinal cord that can negatively ...

In subtle gaze direction, the modulation of the brightness (middle column) or warmth (third column) of a part of the image in the peripheral field of view is used to attract the viewer’s focus to that ...