What is the purpose of blinking
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It might be interesting to ask the question, why do we blink? Blink episode of the RadioLab dive into this question and the result is very much unexpected.
My takeaways:
- Our blink rate doesn’t change in humid (sona room) or dry environment, indicates that its function is not moisting.
- People watching movie would blink synchronized and those synchronized blinks take place usually at the the conclusion of an action or a scene. Blink serves as a punctuation of mind to chunk the information.
- Every minute you have on average 6 seconds blinking, meaning in a 2 hours movie you have 15 mins in darkness. Yet you don’t feel the darkness because your brain has processed the darkness out. But still, you have a significant part of your whole life in darkness albeit unaware.
This is so damn interesting to learn!
- Title: What is the purpose of blinking
- Author: Lumen Yang
- Created at : 2024-02-29 16:32:34
- Updated at : 2024-02-29 16:44:03
- Link: https://www.lumeny.io/2024/02/29/What is the purpose of blinking/
- License: This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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