Title: A sixth sense? How we can tell that eyes are watching us
Headings: A sixth sense? How we can tell that eyes are watching us
A sixth sense? How we can tell that eyes are watching us
The truth about gaze detection

Content: A sixth sense? How we can tell that eyes are watching us
A sixth sense? How we can tell that eyes are watching us
September 19, 2016 10.37am EDT
It’s easy to tell the direction of the human gaze. Laurinemily at English Wikipedia
We’ve all had that feeling that somebody is watching us – even if we’re not looking directly at their eyes. Sometimes we even experience a feeling of being watched by someone completely outside our field of vision. But how can we explain this phenomenon without resorting to pseudoscientific explanations like extrasensory perception (or a “sixth sense”)? The human fascination with eyes lies at the heart of the issue. Eyes are the window into the soul, goes the saying. And it’s no wonder we’re so interested in them – the human brain is highly tuned to lock onto the gaze of others. It’s been suggested that there’s a widespread neural network in the brain just dedicated to the processing of gaze.