The latency of spontaneous eye blinks marks relevant visual and auditory information processing.

ABSTRACT: Eye blinks are influenced by external sensory and internal cognitive factors, as mainly shown in the visual domain. In previous studies, these factors corresponded to the time period of task-relevant sensory information and were often linked to a motor response. Our aim was to dissociate the influence of overall sensory input duration, task-relevant information duration, and the motor response to further understand how the temporal modulation of blinks compares among sensory modalities. Using a visual and an auditory temporal judgment task, we found that blinks were suppressed during stimulus presentation in both domains and that the overall input length had a significant positive relationship with the length of this suppression (i.e., with the latency of the first blink after stimulus ons

SUBMITTER: Murali S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8196427 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature