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Threshold-varying integrate-and-fire model reproduces distributions of spontaneous blink intervals.


ABSTRACT: 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 distributions of inter-blink intervals as well as the more common popular positively skewed distributions. For bimodal distributions, the temporal positions of the two peaks depend on the baseline and the amplitude of the fluctuating threshold function. Parameters that reproduce experimentally derived bimodal distributions suggest that relatively slow oscillations (0.11-0.25 Hz) govern blink elicitations. The results also suggest that changes in blink rates would reflect fluctuations of threshold regulated by human internal states.

SUBMITTER: Nomura R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6207319 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Threshold-varying integrate-and-fire model reproduces distributions of spontaneous blink intervals.

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]

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