Eye movements are an integral and essential part of our human foveated vision system.
Here, we review recent work on voluntary eye movements, with an emphasis on the last …

It has long been known that there is some degree of localisation of function in the human
brain, as indicated by the effects of traumatic head injury. Work in the middle of the 20th …

The Social Science Encyclopedia, first published in 1985 to acclaim from social scientists,
librarians and students, was thoroughly revised in 1996, when reviewers began to describe …

Gordon Lynn Walls, a comparative anatomist, observed,“If asked what aspect of vision
means the most to them, a watchmaker may answer 'acuity,'a night flier 'sensitivity,'and an …

A network of fronto-parietal cortical areas is known to be involved in the control of visual
attention, but the representational scope and specific function of these areas remains …

In communicative situations, speech is often accompanied by gestures. For example,
speakers tend to illustrate certain contents of speech by means of iconic gestures which are …

In the human brain, aversive and appetitive processing have been studied with controlled
stimuli in rather static settings. In addition, the extent to which aversive-related and appetitive …

Observers are able to segment continuous everyday activity into meaningful parts. This
ability may be related to processing low-level visual cues, such as changes in motion. To …

Many neurophysiological studies in monkeys have indicated that visual motion information
for the guidance of perception and smooth pursuit eye movements is–at an early stage …

While the percentage of older people in our society is steadily increasing, knowledge about
perceptual changes during healthy aging is still limited. We investigated age effects on …