| json_metadata | "{"app":"musing/1.1","appTags":["health"],"appCategory":"health","appTitle":"How is blinking of eyes related to cognitive functions?","appBody":"<p>Blinking is an omnipresent involuntary process that maintains stable and healthy vision. With 15 blinks per minute on average it is one of the most frequent human actions. But during a single blink, our visual perception is interrupted for about a third of a second. Although our conscious perception suggests a continuous and stable world, about 10 percent of the time we are missing potentially important visual information from our surroundings. For this reason, it is advantageous to coordinate our blinking intelligently.</p>\n<p>There are many other factors which influence human blink rates. Blinking is closely intertwined with cognitive functions connected to dopamine, a neuromodulator involved in reward related behavior and learning. In particular, blink rates are elevated when we are tired and are related to our activities, as they go up when we are talking and go down when we are reading. So this proves that blinking is clearly related to these cognitive processes.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"f3y73dpap","appParentAuthor":"divine-sound","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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