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Blinking Causes Brain To Go Off-Line
Medical News Today ^
| Jan 3, 2013
Posted on 01/04/2013 9:18:00 AM PST by KeyLargo
Blinking Causes Brain To Go Off-Line 03 Jan 2013
New research from Japan suggests that blinking does more than stop our eyes drying out: it is an active process that causes the brain to go off-line, into a more reflective mode, before giving renewed attention.
Tamami Nakano of Osaka University and colleagues write about their findings in the 24 December online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, PNAS.
In earlier work, where they had invited volunteers to watch Mr Bean videos, Nakano and colleagues discovered that people's eyes blink when they need to pay less attention, for instance when the video cuts to a new scene.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: attention; blinking; brain; eyes
No problem for Nancy.
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posted on
01/04/2013 9:18:12 AM PST
by
KeyLargo
To: KeyLargo
If she were to blink she would think it was a new day.
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posted on
01/04/2013 9:19:49 AM PST
by
353FMG
To: KeyLargo
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posted on
01/04/2013 9:21:43 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: KeyLargo
This must be the way my Welsh Corgi is able to control my mind with his Jedi mind tricks. When he wants something, he’ll sit and stare at me and absolutely not blink. No wonder he is able to bore into my brain.
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posted on
01/04/2013 9:24:48 AM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
To: KeyLargo
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posted on
01/04/2013 9:27:51 AM PST
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KeyLargo
To: 353FMG
If she were to blink she would think it was a new day. With all of her facelifts, if she were to blink she'd bare her teeth.
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posted on
01/04/2013 9:28:37 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(kak-is-toc-ra-cy: Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. See: GOP-e)
To: Sans-Culotte
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posted on
01/04/2013 9:30:18 AM PST
by
Boogieman
To: Sans-Culotte
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posted on
01/04/2013 9:34:54 AM PST
by
KeyLargo
To: KeyLargo
so if a blonde starts batting here eyes at you ...
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posted on
01/04/2013 9:42:09 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
To: NonValueAdded
her ... I must have blinked while posting
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posted on
01/04/2013 9:42:46 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
To: NonValueAdded
"so if a blonde starts batting here eyes at you ..."
You mean like this? 
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posted on
01/04/2013 9:52:08 AM PST
by
KeyLargo
To: KeyLargo
Nahh - Their control group parameters are flawed- They did not use a control group outside a building in the smoggy Osaka air which is so full of crap so your eyes have to blink to clear the crap out of your eyes. Any study without 2 or more control groups is invalid and they know it.
To: KeyLargo
I can’t tell, I suddenly went blind.
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posted on
01/04/2013 9:57:24 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
To: KeyLargo
Permanantly Off Line
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posted on
01/04/2013 10:04:38 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: KeyLargo
Permanently Off Line
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posted on
01/04/2013 10:05:47 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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