ArticleOptometry and vision science : official publication of the American Academy of Optometry2010
Factors regulating eye blink rate in young infants.
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- Human Meibum Age, Lipid-Lipid Interactions and Lipid Saturation in Meibum from Infants.International journal of molecular sciences · 2017Article
- Eye-blink behaviors in 71 species of primates.PloS one · 2013Article
- Changes in human meibum lipid composition with age using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2012Article
- Analysis of the composition of lipid in human meibum from normal infants, children, adolescents, adults, and adults with meibomian gland dysfunction using ¹H-NMR spectroscopy.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2011Article
- Characterizing the spontaneous blink generator: an animal model.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2011Article
- Intraindividual and Interindividual Differences in Spontaneous Eye Blinking: Relationships to Working Memory Performance and Frontal EEG Asymmetry.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this work was to investigate whether individual differences in eye surface area are related to the rate of spontaneous eye blinking (SB) in young infants. Rate of SB was also compared with the rate of gaze shifts.
methodsForty-four 4-month-old infants were observed under controlled conditions for 4 to 6 min. SB, eye surface area, gaze shifts, and various background variables were measured.
resultsIndividual differences in the rate of SB and in eye surface area were wide. Neither the eye surface area nor the rate of gaze shifting was related to the rate of SB in young infants. However, when SB do occur, they are more likely to coincide with a shift in gaze than immediately precede or follow a shift in gaze.
conclusionsEye surface area does not explain individual differences in the rate of SB in infancy. This and other recent work suggests that central factors may play a more prominent role in the mechanisms of SB early in human development than previously reported and that the mechanisms regulating the rate of SB seem to be developmentally continuous with those of adults. To the extent that the rate and timing of SB reflects developing neurological systems, SB may be useful clinically.
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