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 ...

Social gaze and interaction dynamics constitute a vital interdisciplinary field that bridges cognitive neuroscience, social psychology and communication studies. Researchers are increasingly focusing ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

There's something magnetic about a group of people looking in the same direction – others will follow their gazes to see what has caught their attention. But is the same true for animals like pigeons ...