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Presentation 2014-09-26 13:30
[Invited Talk] Functional and neural mechanism of the spontaneous eyeblink
Tamami Nakano (Osaka Univ.) HIP2014-56
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(in English) People spontaneously generate an eyeblink every few seconds. It is generally accepted that eyeblinks are necessary for ocular lubrication, but spontaneous eyeblinks actually occur several times more frequently than necessary for lubrication. Thus, the functional role of most spontaneous eyeblinks has remained unclear. We found that peoples blinked in synchrony while viewing the same video stories. This blink synchronization specifically occur at the implicit breakpoints of the video stories. Moreover, in face-to-face communication, the listeners blinked with a delay of 0.25–0.5 s after the speaker blinked at the end and during pauses in speech. In contrast, the individuals with autism spectrum disorders, which are characterized by impaired social communication, did not show any eyeblink synchronization with the speaker. These facts demonstrate that spontaneous eyeblink involves in the contextual segmentation of information, and the eyeblinks has a social function to share the contextual segmentation with others.

Furthermore, the neuroimaging study revealed that, while viewing videos, cortical activity momentarily decreases in the dorsal attention network after blink onset but increases in the default-mode network. We also found that the individual differences in the spontaneous blink rate has a significant association with the nicotinic receptor genetic polymorphism. These results suggest that the spontaneous eyeblink involves in disengagement of attention at the implicit contextual breakpoint by controlling the balance between the two competing networks with cholinergic-dopaminergic system.
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(in English) eyeblink / spontaneous / synchronization / DMN / attention / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 114, no. 226, HIP2014-56, pp. 73-73, Sept. 2014.
Paper # HIP2014-56 
Date of Issue 2014-09-18 (HIP) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee HIP  
Conference Date 2014-09-25 - 2014-09-26 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Nara Prefectural New Public Hall 
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Conference Code 2014-09-HIP 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Functional and neural mechanism of the spontaneous eyeblink 
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Keyword(2) spontaneous  
Keyword(3) synchronization  
Keyword(4) DMN  
Keyword(5) attention  
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1st Author's Name Tamami Nakano  
1st Author's Affiliation Osaka University (Osaka Univ.)
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Date Time 2014-09-26 13:30:00 
Presentation Time 55 minutes 
Registration for HIP 
Paper # HIP2014-56 
Volume (vol) vol.114 
Number (no) no.226 
Page p.73 
#Pages 1 
Date of Issue 2014-09-18 (HIP) 

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