Previous findings suggested that the human cerebellum is involved in the acquisition but not the long-term storage of motor associations. The finding of preserved retention in cerebellar patients was fundamentally different from animal studies which show that both acquisition and retention depends on the integrity of the cerebellum. The present study investigated whether retention had been pres...

Goossens, H.H.L.M. and A. J. Van Opstal. Blink-perturbed saccades in monkey. I. Behavioral analysis. J Neurophysiol 83: 3411–3429, 2000. Saccadic eye movements are thought to be influenced by blinking through premotor interactions, but it is still unclear how. The present paper describes the properties of blink-associated eye movements and quantifies the effect of reflex blinks on the latencies...

Human’s especially handicapped people it is difficult to operate the system. This paper deals with interface of system and a people with their eye blinking. Here we can find out the eye blinking of any person who can operate the system with a detection function. By using this detection function we can estimate the position of an eye blink. The measurement of an eye blink parameter provides requ...

This paper describes the voluntary eye blink detection method using electrooculogram (EOG). There are still challenge problems to put brain-computer interface (BCI) systems to real-life applications. In general BCI systems, there is a possibility of incorrect and unintentional input because input is automatically selected even if the requirements are accidentally met. This study aims to propose...

The primary purpose of the eyelids is to ensure corneal integrity. An important component of this protective function is maintaining the corneal tear film. Blink characteristics can determine tear film stability. Increasing blink amplitude thickens the lipid layer that overlies the aqueous layer of the tear film. This thickening reduces evaporation of the aqueous layer. Because each blink refor...

There has been a growing interest in the field of facial expression recognition especially in the last two decades. An example of such a system is the improvement of driver carefulness and accident reduction. The driver’s face is tracked while he is driving and he is warned if there seems to be an alerting fact that can result in an accident such as sleepy eyes, or looking out of the road. Furt...

Blinking is a spontaneous or voluntary action of human eyes. It has long been used for human-machine communication and human physiological detection. In these applications, detecting the eye’s states, opened or closed, is an important step and affects the accuracy of detecting human intention or physiological states. In this paper, we present a robust method to detect eye blink based on the int...

In this paper we investigated how statistical properties of the blink rate variability changes during two mental tasks: reading a passage and memory testing. To construct time series of inter-blink intervals (blink rate variability) we detected exact blink time in EEG recordings using our blink detection algorithm. We found that among 13 subjects, all subjects blinked less during reading sessio...

Current knowledge of saccade-blink interactions suggests that blinks have paradoxical effects on saccade generation. Blinks suppress saccade generation by attenuating the oculomotor drive command in structures like the superior colliculus (SC), but they also disinhibit the saccadic system by removing the potent inhibition of pontine omnipause neurons (OPNs). To better characterize these effects...