Our Sense of Time Is Warped When We Catch The Eye of Another Person
Our Sense of Time Is Warped When We Catch The Eye of Another Person 23 APRIL 2021 Our language weighs heavily with idioms and clichés about the human gaze. Whether they're windows to the soul, or we're staring daggers, eye contact communicates more about our intentions than words ever could alone. Poetry aside, the mechanisms behind our response to the gaze of another human are less than clear. Is it an emotional reaction that grabs our attention, or is it our attention that's hooked, with emotions coming along for the ride? Each step in the sequence recruits entirely different areas of...