When looking at another person shifting their gaze, humans use the gazer's head direction, velocity, and peripheral visual information to infer potential gaze goals and execute anticipatory eye movements.
A distinct cortical region serves head gaze following, and is needed to establish joint attention with others and to ultimately develop a theory of others' mind.
Social threats trigger enhanced neural representations within 200 milliseconds in sensory and motor systems of the human brain as a function of anxiety, highlighting its adaptive function in reacting rapidly to dangers in the environment.
Angie M Michaiel, Elliott TT Abe, Cristopher M Niell
During natural visual behavior in mice, orienting towards a target is driven by head movements, during which the eyes stabilize and shift the visual input.
An analysis of vestibular projection neurons lacking their motor neuron partners resolves outstanding controversies for whether and how motor neurons shape vestibulo-ocular reflex circuit assembly.
Experiments showed that uniformly white sclera, one distinguishing feature of human eyes, facilitates gaze perception across species, suggesting that this eye feature evolved for conspecific communication in humans.
Ototoxic transient loss of inner ear inputs leads to suboptimal visuo-vestibular integration despite visual substitution and demonstrates the fundamental role of type I hair cells in the vestibulo-ocular reflexes.
Seren Zhu, Kaushik J Lakshminarasimhan ... Dora E Angelaki
The spatial and temporal patterns of eye movements exhibited by humans in virtual reality reveal how they plan paths when navigating in complex, naturalistic environments.