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The faster an object moves, the greater the adaptability of our eyes

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Washington, Oct. 3 -- When an object moves fast, you follow it with your eyes. Now, a new study sheds light on how the brain correspondingly calculates the speed of the object and adapts eye movement to it.

The control of eye movement responds more sensitively to changes in the speed of fast moving objects than slow moving objects, phenomena called "Gain control".

The research team including Stefan Glasauer from the Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) Munchen determined the location in the brain where 'gain control' is calculated, and what neuronal networks are behind ...

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