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The eye-contact effect is a psychological phenomenon in human selective attention and cognition. It is the effect that the perception of eye contact with another human face has on certain mechanisms in the brain. [1] This contact has been shown to increase activation in certain areas of what has been termed the ‘social brain’. [2]
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[9] [10] He was the first person to explain that vision occurs when light bounces on an object and then is directed to one's eyes. [11] Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is believed to be the first to recognize the special optical qualities of the eye. He wrote "The function of the human eye ... was described by a large number of authors in a ...
The Mind's Eye is a 2010 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks. [1] The book contains case studies of people whose ability to navigate the world visually and communicate with others have been compromised, including the author's own experience with cancer of the eye and his lifelong inability to recognise faces.
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Heeger's academic research spans a cross-section of engineering, psychology, and neuroscience.In the fields of perceptual psychology, systems neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and computational neuroscience, Heeger has developed computational theories of neuronal processing in the visual system, and he has performed psychophysics (perceptual psychology) and neuroimaging (functional ...
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