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SUBMITTER: Nomura R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6207319 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nomura Ryota R Liang Ying-Zong YZ Morita Kenji K Fujiwara Kantaro K Ikeguchi Tohru T
PloS one 20181030 10
Spontaneous blinking is one of the most frequent human behaviours. While attentionally guided blinking may benefit human survival, the function of spontaneous frequent blinking in cognitive processes is poorly understood. To model human spontaneous blinking, we proposed a leaky integrate-and-fire model with a variable threshold which is assumed to represent physiological fluctuations during cognitive tasks. The proposed model is capable of reproducing bimodal, normal, and widespread peak-less di ...[more]