Spontaneous eyeblink rates greatly vary among individuals from several blinks to a few dozen blinks per minute. Because dopamine agonists immediately increase the blink rate, individual differences in blink rate are used as a behavioral index of central dopamine functioning. However, an association of the blink rate with polymorphisms in dopamine-related genes has yet not been found. In this st...

Purpose. To compare the effect of airflow exposure on the tear meniscus and blink frequency in normal and evaporative dry eye subjects. Methods. In 9 normal subjects and 9 short tear breakup time (SBUT) dry eye subjects, lower tear meniscus height (TMH) and area (TMA) and blink frequency were measured with anterior segment optical coherence tomography (OCT) before and after 5 minutes of airflow...

This study aimed to investigate affective modulation of eye blink startle by aversive visceral stimulation. Startle blink EMG responses were measured in 31 healthy participants receiving painful, intermittent balloon distentions in the distal esophagus during 4 blocks (positive, negative, neutral or no pictures), and compared with startles during 3 'safe' blocks without esophageal stimulations ...

In this paper, we discuss our findings ondetecting eye blink artefacts in brain activity using EEG. A test subject participated in a car driving simulation and his brain activity was captured during the experiment. While driving, stressful emotions were triggered in the participant, through steep curves and attention seeking billboards. Our research shows that detecting eye blinks is possible u...

State-of-the-art algorithms offer a real-time human face and eye detection which can be used to detect eye-blink. In this paper we present a feature descriptor. Gradient orientations and magnitudes are used to build the feature descriptor. We use the difference between samples of open and closed eyes. Gradient descriptors are further used to train the SVM. SVM can predict the open or closed eye...

PURPOSE To detect and quantify eye blinks during 24-hour intraocular pressure (IOP) monitoring with a contact lens sensor (CLS). METHODS A total of 249 recordings of 24-hour IOP patterns from 202 participants using a CLS were included. Software was developed to automatically detect eye blinks, and wake and sleep periods. The blink detection method was based on detection of CLS signal peaks gr...