Reference: “Reduced Eye Blinking During Sentence Listening Reflects Increased Cognitive Load in Challenging Auditory Conditions” by Penelope Coupal, Yue Zhang and Mickael Deroche, 1 September 2025, ...

Assistive devices that enable those who can no longer move their bodies to control wheelchairs or communicate by moving only ...

In an interesting post on Inverse, [Sarah Wells] does a deep dive into something you probably don’t think about very often: the blinking cursor. You’d assume there wasn’t much to the story. Maybe a ...

Subtle changes in blinking patterns reveal a listener's true engagement. When people concentrate on understanding speech, their blink rate often slows. This indicates mental effort and absorption of ...

The rhythmic action of blinking helps keep our vision sharp. Initially studied only in vision science, blinking is now also recognized as a subtle cue showing how the brain handles attention and ...

That subtle flutter of your eyelids might seem like nothing more than a basic bodily function, but it’s actually broadcasting your mental state to everyone around you. Your blinking pattern—how ...