How to Tell if Someone is Lying
People lie. Some people lie a lot and proficiently. Given this unsettling (and somewhat unsurprising) fact, an objective means by which …
Lily’s first experience with an eye tracker was in the 1990s with the shiny, sleek, and ultra-modern EyeLink I. Now, she spends her time at SR Research creating software icons and marketing material for the EyeLinks, trying in vain to avoid social media, designing and creating content for the website including writing scientific articles, and more. With a PhD in Psychology, specializing in Brain, Behaviour, and Cognition, and an MSc in Educational Psychology, Lily gravitates toward eye-tracking research involving memory, cognition, vision, and education.
People lie. Some people lie a lot and proficiently. Given this unsettling (and somewhat unsurprising) fact, an objective means by which …
John Sweller developed cognitive load theory in the late 1980s to explain how a task’s difficulty level can affect our ability to …
Reading involves a very characteristic “stop-start” or “fixate-saccade” sequence of eye movements. During fixations, the eye …
There is a large body of academic research that documents profound differences in reading skills between children with and without …
Dyslexia is a neurobiological learning disorder that affects a person’s ability to read. This basic description hides the …
Our ability to predict a moving object’s destination can be very useful. For example, predicting where a flying rock will be in a few …
In the sketch below, you can see the tree’s tangled branches and leaves under a brightly lit moon. The artist’s realistic …
When learning vocabulary in a new language, it is quite common to just repeat (over and over and over again) the to-be-remembered word. …
It is not uncommon to see an adult hold up a finger and move it across a baby’s field of view to determine if the baby can fixate …
Having the ability to understand things from another person’s viewpoint is critical for successful social interactions and …
Peripheral vision is optimized to detect movement and large shapes. For example, in the above image, a person looking at the green field …
Magicians are generous to researchers. Not only do their tricks inspire scientific questions, but those tricks also provide spellbinding …