ArticleEXCLI journal2015
Eye-blinks in choice response tasks uncover hidden aspects of information processing.
Article in EXCLI journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
27 citing papers in PubMed.
- Physiological correlates of cognitive load in laparoscopic surgery.Scientific reports · 2020Trial
- Looking Back While Reading Ahead: Regressive Fixations and Temporal Anticipation in Music Sight-Reading.Journal of eye movement research · 2026Article
- Revisiting eye blink in Parkinson's disease.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Synchronization-based fusion of EEG and eye blink signals for enhanced decoding accuracy.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Blink-related EEG activity measures cognitive load during proactive and reactive driving.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Poisoning among Children Visiting the Paediatric Emergency Department in a Tertiary Care Centre.JNMA; journal of the Nepal Medical Association · 2023Article
- Neuronal correlates of eyeblinks are an expression of primary consciousness phenomena.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Neuroergonomics on the Go: An Evaluation of the Potential of Mobile EEG for Workplace Assessment and Design.Human factors · 2023Article
- Towards ubiquitous and nonintrusive measurements of brain function in the real world: assessing blink-related oscillations during simulated flight using portable low-cost EEG.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Motor restrictions impair divergent thinking during walking and during sitting.Psychological research · 2022Article
- Overt Oculomotor Behavior Reveals Covert Temporal Predictions.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- The latency of spontaneous eye blinks marks relevant visual and auditory information processing.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- How the motor aspect of speaking influences the blink rate.PloS one · 2021Article
- The Role of Blinks, Microsaccades and their Retinal Consequences in Bistable Motion Perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Operators' Load Monitoring and Management.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Towards Intelligent Data Analytics: A Case Study in Driver Cognitive Load Classification.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Eye blinks are related to auditory information processing: evidence from a complex speech perception task.Psychological research · 2019Article
- Cognitive loading via mental arithmetic modulates effects of blink-related oscillations on precuneus and ventral attention network regions.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
- A Mixed-Methods Approach Using Self-Report, Observational Time Series Data, and Content Analysis for Process Analysis of a Media Reception Phenomenon.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- A Riemannian Modification of Artifact Subspace Reconstruction for EEG Artifact Handling.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Spontaneous eye-blinks occur much more often than it would be necessary to maintain the tear film on the eyes. Various factors like cognitive demand, task engagement, or fatigue are influencing spontaneous blink rate. During cognitive information processing there is evidence that blinks occur preferably at moments that can be assigned to input stream segmentation. We investigated blinking behavior in three different visual choice response experiments (Experiment 1: spatial Stimulus-Response correspondence, Experiment 2: Change Detection, Experiment 3: Continuous performance Test - AX version). Blinks during the experimental tasks were suppressed when new information was expected, as well as during cognitive processing until the response was executed. Blinks in go trials occurred within a short and relatively constant interval after manual responses. However, blinks were not a side effect of manual behavior, as they occurred in a similar manner in no-go trials in which no manual response was executed. In these trials, blinks were delayed when a prepared response had to be inhibited, compared to trials in which no response was intended. Additionally, time on task effects for no-go blinks mirrored those obtained in go trials. Thus, blinks seem to provide a reliable measure for cognitive processing beyond (or rather additional to) manual responses.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.