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Scientists at University College London have used photonic techniques to study what happens when humans blink. They wanted to know why shutting the eyelids hardly registers in visual perception. Even though people normally blink about 15 times a minute to moisten their eyes, they are not consciously aware of the world going dark. Volunteers wore lightproof goggles in a functional MRI brain scanner as the scientists shone strong light on their eyeballs from inside the head via fiber optic cable inserted through the mouth. Because the light remained constant even when the volunteers...Read full article

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    Published: September 2005
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    blinking
    Intentionally alternating the intensity of a display element in a graphic display device.
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