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Every few seconds, our eyelids automatically shutter and our eyeballs roll back in their sockets. So why doesn't blinking plunge us into intermittent darkness and light?
New research led by UC Berkeley shows that the brain works extra hard to stabilize our vision despite our fluttering eyes.
[...] In a study published today in the online edition of the journal Current Biology, they found that when we blink, our brain repositions our eyeballs so we can stay focused on what we're viewing.
When our eyeballs roll back in their sockets during a blink, they don't always return to the same spot when we reopen our eyes. This misalignment prompts the brain to activate the eye muscles to realign our vision, said study lead author Gerrit Maus, an assistant professor of psychology at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Target Displacements during Eye Blinks Trigger Automatic Recalibration of Gaze Direction. Current Biology, 2017; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.029
(Score: 3, Informative) by requerdanos on Thursday January 26 2017, @11:35PM
A fine point, perhaps, but...
Well, that's the identifier of the linked article, such as it is, and therefore that's the link text, but the URL itself looks like this:
I.e., dx dot doi dot org slash something.
I believe that URLs that start with something dot something dot org and then follow with the name of a document or folder are not quite as dire as would a URL itself that is a soup and salad of random numbers, letters, and dots.
I agree that Digital Object Identifiers [doi.org] are ugly, but I am not sure that judging the URL by its link text is warranted.