Why Do our Eyes Move as They Do? UT Scientists Have New Answers to That

October 22, 2018 • by Esther Robards-Forbes
Closeup of a human eye with green iris and black pupil

Photo by Wendel Moretti.


Three stacked images of waterfront homes. Top image is clear. Middle image is blurry on the edges. Bottom image is completely blurry.

An image like the first one shown here appears clear to an eye in motion. In reality the human eye only focuses on a small portion of the whole (middle image). A mouse would have nearly nothing in focus (bottom image). Photo courtesy of The University of Texas at Austin. 

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