{"id":103264,"date":"2020-03-04T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T23:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/our-eye-movements-help-us-retrieve-memories-suggests-new-study"},"modified":"2020-03-04T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T23:44:08","slug":"our-eye-movements-help-us-retrieve-memories-suggests-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/our-eye-movements-help-us-retrieve-memories-suggests-new-study","title":{"rendered":"Our eye movements help us retrieve memories, suggests new study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-eye-movements-help-us-retrieve-memories-suggests-new-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recent study, scientists at Baycrest\u2019s Rotman Research Institute (RRI) found that research participants moved their eyes to determine whether they had seen an image before, and that their eye movement patterns could predict mistakes in memory. They obtained these results using an innovative new eye tracking technique they developed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur findings indicate that eye movements play a functional role in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/memory\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">memory<\/a> retrieval,\u201d says Dr. Jennifer Ryan, senior scientist at the RRI and Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory. \u201cThey can tell us a lot about someone\u2019s memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This study builds on previous Baycrest research examining the link between eye movements and memory, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018-03-memory-overload-eyes.html\">role of our eye movements in memorization<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018-10-link-older.html\">weakening connection between our eye movements and our brain activity as we age<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent study, scientists at Baycrest\u2019s Rotman Research Institute (RRI) found that research participants moved their eyes to determine whether they had seen an image before, and that their eye movement patterns could predict mistakes in memory. They obtained these results using an innovative new eye tracking technique they developed. \u201cOur findings indicate that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}