Learn what afterimages can teach us about how our brains predict our visual movements.

Researchers use afterimages to prove the brain predicts eye movements with 94% accuracy, revealing the internal "efference copy" mechanism that keeps our vision stable.

Our eyes alone do not provide us with a continuous and stable view of the world. They jump several times each second in rapid movements called saccades. Because the eye projects the world onto the ...

Every time the human eye darts from one point to another, the retinal image smears across the visual field. These rapid jumps ...

To recover from abuse or another traumatic experience, some people turn to a therapy called eye-movement desensitisation and reprocessing, or EMDR. But this may present problems if these people pursue ...

Ghostly afterimages are the result of our brain stabilizing our vision, according to German researchers who investigated the process.