ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026
Blinks are strategically coupled with head movements in unconstrained natural gaze behavior.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Blinks are strategically coupled with head movements in unconstrained natural gaze behavior.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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Blinks are a ubiquitous yet largely unnoticed aspect of human vision, despite causing frequent interruptions of visual input that can amount to up to 10% of waking time. By leveraging a large dataset of unconstrained gaze behavior during two natural tasks, we found a behavioral strategy to limit the impact of blinks: blinks were strategically coupled with head movements, which minimizes information loss due to unreliable visual input during head movements. Specifically, blink probability increased with higher head velocities and showed strong temporal modulation relative to head movement onset: Blink probability was reduced before head movement initiation and then peaked during the head movement. The strength of this coupling was tailored to the individual needs of participants, with participants with higher baseline blink rates showing stronger synchronization. This indicates that blinks are a part of an individually coordinated strategy when orchestrating eye and head movements during unconstrained natural behavior.
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