An Examination of the Effects of Linguistic Abilities on Communication Stress, Measured by Blinking and Heart Rate, During a Telephone Situation

Hirokawa, Kumi; Yagi, Akihiro; Miyata, Yô

doi:10.2224/sbp.2000.28.4.343

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“…A tantalizing possibility for why blinks result in higher-order cognitive processing is that we have learned associations between blink rate and level of interest, arousal level, stress and/or other factors integral to social interactions. These cognitive and affective states can in turn affect dopaminergic systems which have a direct relationship with blink rate (Brozoski et al, 1979 ; Karson, 1983 ; Coull et al, 1995 ; Coull, 1998 ; Hirokawa et al, 2000 ; Dreisbach et al, 2005 ).…”

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In the Blink of an Eye: Neural Responses Elicited to Viewing the Eye Blinks of Another Individual

Brefczynski-Lewis

Berrebi

McNeely

et al. 2011

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Facial movements have the potential to be powerful social signals. Previous studies have shown that eye gaze changes and simple mouth movements can elicit robust neural responses, which can be altered as a function of potential social significance. Eye blinks are frequent events and are usually not deliberately communicative, yet blink rate is known to influence social perception. Here, we studied event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited to observing non-task relevant blinks, eye closure, and eye gaze changes in a centrally presented natural face stimulus. Our first hypothesis (H1) that blinks would produce robust ERPs (N170 and later ERP components) was validated, suggesting that the brain may register and process all types of eye movement for potential social relevance. We also predicted an amplitude gradient for ERPs as a function of gaze change, relative to eye closure and then blinks (H2). H2 was only partly validated: large temporo-occipital N170s to all eye change conditions were observed and did not significantly differ between blinks and other conditions. However, blinks elicited late ERPs that, although robust, were significantly smaller relative to gaze conditions. Our data indicate that small and task-irrelevant facial movements such as blinks are measurably registered by the observer's brain. This finding is suggestive of the potential social significance of blinks which, in turn, has implications for the study of social cognition and use of real-life social scenarios.

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In the Blink of an Eye: Neural Responses Elicited to Viewing the Eye Blinks of Another Individual

Brefczynski-Lewis

Berrebi

McNeely

et al. 2011

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Especially in social situations such as a group discussion and a conversation among more than two persons, as in this experiment, the blink rate allows an experimenter to analyze one aspect of the mental state by counting it utilizing the video record. Hirokawa, Yagi, and Miyata (2000) also assessed blink rate during conversation situations, and suggested that the blink rate could be an index of physiological state. Regarding the relationship between stress and blink rate, the authors expected that when an individual felt anxiety or tension, his/her blink rate would increase.…”

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Effect of Gender-Types on Interpersonal Stress Measured by Blink Rate and Questionnaires: Focusing on Stereotypically Sex-Typed and Androgynous Types

Hirokawa¹,

Yamada²,

Dohi³

et al. 2001

soc behav pers

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This study was conducted to determine how differences of self gender-type and partner's gendertype in Japan had an effect on interpersonal stress (anxiety/uneasiness) during a conversation among mixed-sex pairs. The level of interpersonal stress was discussed in relation to blink rate. The participants were assigned to one of the following four pair types: (a) Male and female were androgynous (maleA-femaleA); (b) Male was androgynous and female was stereotypically ____________ Kumi Hirokawa,

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“…Leal & Vrij represented blinks in increased cognitive demand during lying [ 8 ]. Ponder and Kennedy reported about blinks during emotional excitement [ 9 ] and Hirokawa depicted more frequent blinks in highest nervousness [ 10 ]. Cognitive processes have a substantial impact on blink rates, mentally taxing activities like memorization or mathematical computation being associated with an increase in blink rate and inattentiveness (daydreaming) and stimulus tracking being associated with low blink rates.…”

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Feature Selection in Classification of Eye Movements Using Electrooculography for Activity Recognition

Mala

Latha

2014

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

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Activity recognition is needed in different requisition, for example, reconnaissance system, patient monitoring, and human-computer interfaces. Feature selection plays an important role in activity recognition, data mining, and machine learning. In selecting subset of features, an efficient evolutionary algorithm Differential Evolution (DE), a very efficient optimizer, is used for finding informative features from eye movements using electrooculography (EOG). Many researchers use EOG signals in human-computer interactions with various computational intelligence methods to analyze eye movements. The proposed system involves analysis of EOG signals using clearness based features, minimum redundancy maximum relevance features, and Differential Evolution based features. This work concentrates more on the feature selection algorithm based on DE in order to improve the classification for faultless activity recognition.

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An Examination of the Effects of Linguistic Abilities on Communication Stress, Measured by Blinking and Heart Rate, During a Telephone Situation

Cited by 12 publications

References 15 publications

In the Blink of an Eye: Neural Responses Elicited to Viewing the Eye Blinks of Another Individual

In the Blink of an Eye: Neural Responses Elicited to Viewing the Eye Blinks of Another Individual

Effect of Gender-Types on Interpersonal Stress Measured by Blink Rate and Questionnaires: Focusing on Stereotypically Sex-Typed and Androgynous Types

Feature Selection in Classification of Eye Movements Using Electrooculography for Activity Recognition

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