Tanaka Y
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Kawamura College, Tokyo.
Shinrigaku Kenkyu. 1999 Apr;70(1):1-8. doi: 10.4992/jjpsy.70.1.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between arousal level and blink activity; blink rate, blink amplitude and blink duration. Blink activity was examined under two different tasks in which arousal level was manipulated. One was a vigilance task (Experiment 1) for comparatively high arousal level. The other was a simple counting task in a dark and quiet room (Experiment 2) for extremely lower arousal level. Results indicated that blink rates and blink durations tended to increase as arousal level got lower in the monotonous vigilance task situations, meanwhile, blink rates and blink amplitudes decreased as a function of negative arousal level in the pre-sleep situation.
本研究的目的是调查唤醒水平与眨眼活动之间的关系；眨眼频率、眨眼幅度和眨眼持续时间。在两种不同的任务中对眨眼活动进行了检查，其中唤醒水平受到了操控。一种是警觉任务（实验1），用于相对较高的唤醒水平。另一种是在黑暗安静的房间里进行的简单计数任务（实验2），用于极低的唤醒水平。结果表明，在单调的警觉任务情境中，随着唤醒水平降低，眨眼频率和眨眼持续时间往往会增加，与此同时，在睡前情境中，眨眼频率和眨眼幅度会随着负性唤醒水平而降低。
