| Literature DB >> 6948307 |
C N Karson, K F Berman, E F Donnelly, W B Mendelson, J E Kleinman, R J Wyatt.
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.Entities:
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Year: 1981 PMID: 6948307 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1781(81)90070-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Psychiatry Res ISSN: 0165-1781 Impact factor: 3.222