{"id":9587,"date":"2013-01-02T08:47:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T13:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=9587"},"modified":"2013-01-07T17:08:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T22:08:31","slug":"blinking-may-trigger-a-release-of-attention-while-viewing-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2013\/01\/blinking-may-trigger-a-release-of-attention-while-viewing-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinking may trigger a release of attention while viewing videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Eyesight\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/eyesight_vision.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/>Spontaneous eyeblinks may be actively involved in a release of attention during cognitive behavior<\/strong>, potentially explaining why people generate eyeblinks far more often than necessary to lubricate the eyes, according to a study.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unknown why <strong>we generate spontaneous eyeblinks every few seconds, more often than necessary for ocular lubrication<\/strong>. Because eyeblinks tend to occur at implicit breakpoints while viewing videos, the researchers from Osaka University hypothesized that eyeblinks are actively involved in the release of attention.<\/p>\n<p>Reseachers showed that while viewing videos, cortical activity momentarily decreases in the dorsal attention network after blink onset but increases in the default-mode network implicated in internal processing. In contrast, physical blackouts of the video do not elicit such reciprocal changes in brain networks.<\/p>\n<p>The results suggest that <strong>eyeblinks are actively involved in the process of attentional disengagement during a cognitive behavior<\/strong> by momentarily activating the default-mode network while deactivating the dorsal attention network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Article #12-14804: &#8220;Blink-related momentary activation of the default mode network while viewing videos,&#8221; by Tamami Nakano, Makoto Kato, Yusuke Morito, Seishi Itoi, and Shigeru Kitazawa.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spontaneous eyeblinks may be actively involved in a release of attention during cognitive behavior, potentially explaining why people generate eyeblinks far more often than necessary to lubricate the eyes, according&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2013\/01\/blinking-may-trigger-a-release-of-attention-while-viewing-videos\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[42,18,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9587"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9674,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9587\/revisions\/9674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}