Psychedelics Don’t Scatter Gaze

Researchers brought eye‑trackers and psilocybin to participants’ homes and recorded how they looked at 30 famous paintings at low vs high doses. Contrary to the usual 'relaxed priors' expectation of more erratic scanning, gaze did not become chaotic; viewing patterns reorganized in a more structured way. This suggests psychedelics shift attention rather than simply loosening it. — If psychedelics alter perception in specific, structured ways, not random ones, policy and clinical debates should temper grand predictive‑processing claims and ground therapeutic hype in measured cognitive effects.