Blinking can do more than just keep our eyes healthy
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Blinking serves a crucial physiological function, cleaning debris from our eyes and keeping them lubricated. But now, scientists have found that it can also play a cognitive role.
(In 1945, Arthur Hall of the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom observed that when people were reading, they performed some of the news of the frequency of the gestureprinted blanks. He suggested that blinking can help people pause while reading.
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