Retrieve your memory with this potential eye trick: Study

Struggling with recalling your memories from the past? Here’s a new effective way to remember things better. Study finds some eye movements can help the brain cells to capture details of the event for a longer period. This occurs because of the visual’s long term impact on the brain.
Published in the journal PNAS, the research conducted by a group of experts concluded the strong link between eye movements and memory retrieval. According to the researchers, it is a part of human nature to move their eyes to similar directions of the incident while trying to recall the memories.
The observation included a group of participants who were asked to recall images while staring at a blank screen. The experiment observed how participant’s eye movements changed in the same direction where they initially have seen the picture for the first time. Surprisingly, eye movement helped people to accurately identify the correct answer.
Later, the team of researchers repeated the same experiment with moderately ‘degraded’ to 80 percent altered versions of the same images for a better understanding of the brain. However, some participants could recall the exact image using the same eye movement technique.
Bradley Buchsbaum, senior scientist at Baycrest Center’s Rotman Research Institute (RRI) of Canada added, “The brain compares important characteristics of what we are seeing to a mental picture in our memory, and it identifies the two as the same.”
When we see a picture, a face or something else that we have already seen, our eyes tend to look at the same locations as they did the first time,” Buchsbaum explained.
It is being hoped that this finding might help to discover ways of assessing memory in humans. It can also improvise the traditional model of diagnosing memory-related disorders, such as dementia, where verbal methods are still being practiced. More tests are to be conducted for further investigation on how one simple eye movement can help to retrieve the memory.

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