ArticleClinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2016
Spontaneous Eye-Blink Rate as an Index of Reward Responsivity: Validation and Links to Bipolar Disorder.
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- Eye-Tracking in Bipolar Disorder: A Methodology-Focused Narrative Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- Modulation of reward positivity and blink rate in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) during and following transcranial direct current stimulation.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Spontaneous eye blinks in horses (Equus caballus) are modulated by attention.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Automated Analysis Pipeline for Extracting Saccade, Pupil, and Blink Parameters Using Video-Based Eye Tracking.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Activation of brain arousal networks coincident with eye blinks during resting state.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Pupillary correlates of individual differences in long-term memory.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
- Individual differences in working memory capacity and the regulation of arousal.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2020Article
- Identity in bipolar disorder: Self-worth and achievement.Journal of personality · 2020Review
- Individual differences in baseline oculometrics: Examining variation in baseline pupil diameter, spontaneous eye blink rate, and fixation stability.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- Individual differences in blink rate modulate the effect of instrumental control on subsequent Pavlovian responding.Psychopharmacology · 2019Article
- Task-induced pupil response and visual perception in adults.PloS one · 2018Article
- Physiological Measures of Dopaminergic and Noradrenergic Activity During Attentional Set Shifting and Reversal.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Characterizing the course of non-suicidal self-injury: A cognitive neuroscience perspective.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2017Review
- Beyond eye gaze: What else can eyetracking reveal about cognition and cognitive development?Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2017Review
- Tracking Real-Time Changes in Working Memory Updating and Gating with the Event-Based Eye-Blink Rate.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Extensive research supports the role of striatal dopamine in pursuing and responding to reward, and that eye-blink rate is a valid indicator of striatal dopamine. This study tested whether phasic changes in blink rate could provide an index of reward pursuit. This hypothesis was tested in people with bipolar I disorder (BD; a population with aberrations in reward responsivity), and in those without BD. Thirty-one adults with BD and 28 control participants completed a laboratory task involving effort towards monetary reward. Blink rate was recorded using eye-tracking at baseline, reward anticipation, and post-reward. Those in the BD group completed self-report measures relating to reward and ambition. Results showed that across all participants, blink rates increased from reward anticipation to post-reward. In the BD group, reward-relevant measures were strongly correlated with variation in blink rate. These findings provide validation for phasic changes in blink rate as an index of reward response.
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