Taste stimuli can elicit facial responses, and the facial responses may be useful indexes of taste sensations. In this study, we propose that eye blinking is also elicited by taste stimuli and we examined eye blink responses in six healthy young adults. Low and high concentration solutions of the four basic taste qualities (sweetness, saltiness, sourness, and bitterness) and distilled water wer...

The present study was performed to investigate the associations between eye-blink behaviors and various other factors in primates. We video-recorded 141 individuals across 71 primate species and analyzed the blink rate, blink duration, and "isolated" blink ratio (i.e., blinks without eye or head movement) in relation to activity rhythms, habitat types, group size, and body size factors. The res...

Electroencephalography is a technique for recording the brain’s electrical activity – the electroencephalogram or EEG. It is an important procedure in the diagnosis of several brain disorders, as well being a valuable physiological tool for studies of normal brain function. However, the EEG is often contaminated by numerous artefacts such as eye-blinks, muscle activities, and eye-movements. Thi...

Video-oculography devices are now used to quantify the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) at the bedside using the head impulse test (HIT). Little is known about the impact of disruptive phenomena (e.g. corrective saccades, nystagmus, fixation losses, eye-blink artifacts) on quantitative VOR assessment in acute vertigo. This study systematically characterized the frequency, nature, and impact of art...

In this paper, a tree decomposition model for eye blink detection is presented. The work is defined as a layered model for identification of human object over the video and identifying the moment based analysis over the video frames. At first the object region is identified and then the decomposition model is applied for eye blink identification based on featured map. The results show that the ...

Although spontaneous blinking is one of the most frequent human movements, little is known about its neural basis. We developed a rat model of spontaneous blinking to identify and better characterize the spontaneous blink generator. We monitored spontaneous blinking for 55 min periods in normal conditions and after the induction of mild dry eye or dopaminergic drug challenges. The normal sponta...

Spontaneous eye blink rate and frequency of eye tics were studied in nine Tourette patients during periods of rest, conversation, and video watching. In comparison with controls, the Tourette patients showed a significantly higher blink rate during rest and video watching. Conversation induced a significant increase in blink rate in the control group, but not in the Tourette patients, whereas v...

The eyes are tracked and correlation scores between the actual eye and the corresponding “closed-eye” template are used to detect blinks. However, it requires offline training for different depths from the camera for the computation of the distance. In addition, the system requires initialization in which an Eye blinking is one of the prominent areas to solve many real world problems. The proce...

Both invasive and non-invasive electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings from the human brain have an increasingly important role in neuroscience research and are candidate modalities for medical brain-machine interfacing. It is often assumed that the major artifacts that compromise non-invasive EEG, such as caused by blinks and eye movement, are absent in invasive EEG recordings. Quantitative i...