A psychological research on the relationship between selective attention and spontaneous blinking

正如谚语所说，眼睛是心灵的窗户，在面对面的情况下，人们会注意别人的眼睛。许多研究已经解释了眼睛行为和心理过程之间的关系。在本研究中，我们注意到眼睛行为中自发的眨眼活动，因为眨眼的发生不仅是为了保护眼睛免受外界刺激，而且与金属信息处理有关（Tada, Yamada, & Fukuda, 1991）。我们使用基于自动视频的眨眼分析系统（Matsuo & Fukuda, 1996）分析的眨眼时间分布方法研究了认知处理任务中的眨眼活动。结果表明，自发性眨眼在处理刺激过程中受到抑制，在处理结束时得到促进，tdb决定了眨眼频率的波谷和波峰。本研究的目的是利用双模态注意任务，在视觉和听觉刺激的呈现中，一种模态参与和另一种模态不参与，来证明在选择性注意任务中眨眼的变化。在实验1和实验2中，在无任务条件下，虽然在无任务条件下视觉刺激后眨眼频率达到峰值，但在无任务条件下听觉刺激后眨眼频率没有达到峰值。在实验3中，选择性参与听觉刺激嵌入无任务听觉刺激后，眨眼现象的发生受到抑制。在实验4中，选择性参与视觉刺激嵌入无任务视觉刺激后，眨眼频率达到峰值后连续出现眨眼现象。实验5中，在无注意空间刺激后，眨眼频率没有达到峰值。这些结果表明，眨眼的变化可能与选择性注意有关，并且眨眼可以为驾驶过程中欺骗或注意的检测提供额外的指标。

As the proverb saying that the eye is the window of the mind, people attend to other's eye in the face-to-face situation. Many studies have explained the relationship between the eye behavior and psychological processes. In this research, we noticed the spontaneous eye blink activity in the eye behavior because eye blinks occur in order to not only protect the eye from external stimuli but also to be related to metal information processing (Tada, Yamada, & Fukuda, 1991). We have studied the eye blink activity during cognitive processing tasks using a method of temporal distribution of blinks (TDBs) analyzed by an automatic video based blink analysis system (Matsuo & Fukuda, 1996). The results have shown that spontaneous eye blinks was inhibited during processing stimuli and facilitated at the termination of processing and that the TDBs shaped the blink rate trough and peak.The purpose of this investigation was to demonstrate the changes in eye blinks during selective attention tasks using a dual modality attention task in which one modality is attended and the other is not attended in the presentation of visual and auditory stimuli. In experiment 1 and 2, the blink rate did not peak after auditory stimuli in no task, although the blink rate peaked after visual stimuli in no task. In experiment 3, the occurrence of blink was inhibited after the selective attended auditory stimuli embedded in no task auditory stimuli. In experiment 4, blinks occurred continuously after the blink rate peak after the selective attended visual stimuli embedded in no task visual stimuli. In experiment 5, the blink rate did not peak after non-attended spatial stimuli. These results suggested that changes in eye blinks could be related to selective attention and that eye blinks could provide an additional index for the detection of deception or the attention during driving automobile.