Why We Move Our Eyes While Trying to Remember?

Does this study seem familiar to you? Did you move your eyes while trying to remember?

Why do we move our eyes while trying to remember? The relationship between non-visual gaze patterns and memory,” Dragana Micic, Howard Ehrlichman and Rebecca Chen, Brain and Cognition, 2010 Dec;74(3):210-24. The authors, at  City University of New York (CUNY), report:

“reasons for their appearance remain obscure.”