Example sentences of "eye movement [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They checked on the possibility that saccadic movements made with the eyes closed , or in the dark , might be slowed , or that the velocity may then be independent of length of saccade , and found that they were not : that is , waking eye movements with eyes closed , or in the dark , are the same as with eyes opened and in the light .
2 Finally , it can be pointed out that newborn babies have profuse eye movements during REM sleep , although their vision is not good .
3 Eugene Aserinsky and his associates have recently discovered that the fast eye movements of REM sleep tend to be consistently slower than waking saccadic movements .
4 The pattern of velocity of eye movements of REM sleep is quite unlike that of waking eye movements , and seems inconsistent with the idea that they reflect scanning responses .
5 After watching the eye movements of subjects during REM sleep , and then obtaining reports from them of intense visual imagery , it seems only natural to assume that one has something to do with the other .
6 Although lateral eye movements appear at first sight to offer a simple and straightforward way of assessing which hemisphere is active at a given Instant , the evidence relating eye movements to hemisphere function is at present rather insubstantial .
7 McHaffie and Stein ( 1982 ) have also reported eye movements after colliculus stimulation in rats , although it is not clear that they are true saccades .
8 It was therefore hypothesised by Morgan , McDonald and MacDonald ( 1971 ) that subjects showing a predominance of left lateral eye movements in response to verbal and spatial questions would show a greater susceptibility to hypnosis than those with predominantly right lateral eye movements .
9 Although analysis of initial eye movements revealed no statistically significant effect of question type on direction of eye movement , the average frequency of all lateral eye movements in response to verbal questions was greater for movements towards the right .
10 Activity in giant cells in the pontine brainstem have been shown to precede eye movements in REM sleep in animals ( or paradoxical sleep , as it is called in rodents and cats ) while there is no evidence that cortical activity can influence these cells ' discharges .
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