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Classical Short-Delay Eyeblink Conditioning in One-Year-Old Children
Published on: September 1, 2018
Fast face recognition: eye blink as a reliable behavioral response
Ali Bulent Usakli1, Ana Susac, Serkan Gurkan
1Department of Technical Sciences, The NCO Academy, Balikesir, Turkey.
Abstract:
To investigate how quickly we can recognize faces, we used the onset of eye blinking as a behavioral response. The mean reaction time for the blink response was 188±38ms which was 80ms faster than the motor response. As expected, the subjects were more correct and faster to distinguish between faces and houses than when responding to particular face emotion and identity. Our results suggested that early visual processing before 150ms is very important in face processing. This corroborates previous reports from EEG/MEG studies and intracranial recordings on the face-related response around 100ms after stimulus onset. Our findings indicated that blinking can be used as a fast and reliable behavioral response.
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