The pupil of the eye opens a remarkable window into the mind
From mental effort to the content of a person’s imagination, these tiny apertures reveal far more than you might realise
by Christoph Strauch
Christoph Strauch is assistant professor of experimental psychology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He studies visual attention and what pupil size reveals about mental processes. His work on pupillometry appears in journals like Trends in Neurosciences and eLife.
Written by Christoph Strauch