ArticleBrain sciences2021
Viewers Change Eye-Blink Rate by Predicting Narrative Content.
Article in Brain sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effects of Playback Speed on Eye Movement Behavior During News Viewing: An Eye-Tracking Study.Journal of eye movement research · 2026Article
- Spontaneous eye blink rate indicates increased attention during grooming in female Barbary macaques.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The timing of spontaneous eye blinks in text reading suggests cognitive role.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Emotional impact of AI-generated vs. human-composed music in audiovisual media: A biometric and self-report study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Blink and you see it.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Effects of DPTQ, a novel positive allosteric modulator of the dopamine D1 receptor, on spontaneous eye blink rate and spatial working memory in the nonhuman primate.Psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- The role of individual differences in resistance to persuasion on memory for political advertisements.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Eye blinks provoke a loss of visual information. However, we are not constantly making conscious decisions about the appropriate moment to blink. The presence or absence of eye blinks also denotes levels of attention. We presented three movies with the exact same narrative but different styles of editing and recorded participants' eye blinks. We found that moments of increased or decreased eye blinks by viewers coincided with the same content in the different movie styles. The moments of increased eye blinks corresponded to those when the actor leaves the scene and when the movie repeats the same action for a while. The moments of decreased eye blinks corresponded to actions where visual information was crucial to proper understanding of the scene presented. According to these results, viewers' attention is more related to narrative content than to the style of editing when watching movies.
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