Mark Nicholas
@markolas.bsky.social
Postdoc in the @yttrilab.bsky.social at @CMU_Bio, retired footballer, maker of good food
https://markolas11.github.io
https://markolas11.github.io
Well whether or not "they have to do it", is still a question, but I would say blinking is a convenient way to break up incoming information.
Next time you give a lecture or a talk, take note of when the audience blinks relative to your speech cadence and information you are sharing
Next time you give a lecture or a talk, take note of when the audience blinks relative to your speech cadence and information you are sharing
June 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Well whether or not "they have to do it", is still a question, but I would say blinking is a convenient way to break up incoming information.
Next time you give a lecture or a talk, take note of when the audience blinks relative to your speech cadence and information you are sharing
Next time you give a lecture or a talk, take note of when the audience blinks relative to your speech cadence and information you are sharing
The idea of blinking and editing are linked comes from the first link - "In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing" by Walter Murch
"...And that blink will occur where a cut could have happened, ... Not a frame earlier or later." (pg 36)
"...And that blink will occur where a cut could have happened, ... Not a frame earlier or later." (pg 36)
June 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The idea of blinking and editing are linked comes from the first link - "In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing" by Walter Murch
"...And that blink will occur where a cut could have happened, ... Not a frame earlier or later." (pg 36)
"...And that blink will occur where a cut could have happened, ... Not a frame earlier or later." (pg 36)
Cool to see someone has studied this recently!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Viewers Change Eye-Blink Rate by Predicting Narrative Content
Eye blinks provoke a loss of visual information. However, we are not constantly making conscious decisions about the appropriate moment to blink. The presence or absence of eye blinks also denotes lev...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
June 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Cool to see someone has studied this recently!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
In a past life I did film production and editing and we knew to make edits around content - we would see blinks in the audience with cut scenes as if they were chunking information
I remember reading this back in the day which helped me a lot with editing
www.craftfilmschool.com/userfiles/fi...
I remember reading this back in the day which helped me a lot with editing
www.craftfilmschool.com/userfiles/fi...
June 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
In a past life I did film production and editing and we knew to make edits around content - we would see blinks in the audience with cut scenes as if they were chunking information
I remember reading this back in the day which helped me a lot with editing
www.craftfilmschool.com/userfiles/fi...
I remember reading this back in the day which helped me a lot with editing
www.craftfilmschool.com/userfiles/fi...