Speaking, thinking, and blinking

Craig N. Karson; Karen Faith Berman; Edward F. Donnelly; Wallace B. Mendelson; Joel E. Kleinman; Richard Jed Wyatt

doi:10.1016/0165-1781(81)90070-6

Speaking, thinking, and blinking

Craig N. Karson, Karen Faith Berman, Edward F. Donnelly, Wallace B. Mendelson, Joel E. Kleinman, Richard Jed Wyatt

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Abstract

The effect of several mental tasks on the spontaneous eye blink rate in 36 normals was examined. The blink rate during silence was 19.0 blinks/ minute. This was significantly lower than the mean blink rate during speech (24.7 blinks/minute) and while listening to a paragraph to be memorized (27.6 blinks/ minute). Reading reduced the blink rate to 12.3 blinks/ minute. Men were more able to suppress and speed up blinking than women.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	243-246
Number of pages	4
Journal	Psychiatry research
Volume	5
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-1781(81)90070-6
State	Published - Dec 1981
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Blink rate
memory
proverb interpretation
speaking

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Psychiatry and Mental health
Biological Psychiatry

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