{"id":1781,"date":"2025-03-31T13:51:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2025-04-11T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:32:38","slug":"4-10-25-zengbo-xie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/2025\/03\/31\/4-10-25-zengbo-xie\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/10\/25 Zengbo Xie"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>CCN Brown Bag<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/psychological_sciences\/bio\/zengbo-xie\">Zengbo Xie<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/psychological_sciences\/images\/people\/image.php\/Zengbo-Xie.jpg?width=250&amp;image=\/psychological_sciences\/images\/people\/graduate_student\/Zengbo-Xie.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Graduate Student<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Thursday, April 10, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time: <\/strong>12:10-1pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:\u00a0<\/strong>Wilson Hall 316<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s\u00a0blink<b>:\u00a0<\/b>Can we be passive observers of our own behavior?<\/h6>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Investigating the role of awareness in motor control is challenging because most actions are performed consciously. We have recently exploited eye blinking as a novel paradigm to tease apart awareness and motor control as blinking is a behavior that can be done both unconsciously and consciously.\u00a0 In the present series of experiments, we assessed whether the mere awareness of blinking affects the act of blinking. We employed infrared eye-tracking and video analysis to examine blinking patterns and kinematics in healthy young adults while participants were engaged in spontaneous blinking, conscious blinking and voluntary blinking. The results revealed that not only does awareness affect blinking, but it may also morph spontaneous blinks into voluntary blinks. Evidently, the mere act of becoming conscious of blinking inevitably affects that behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCN Brown Bag Zengbo Xie Graduate Student Date:\u00a0Thursday, April 10, 2025 Time: 12:10-1pm Location:\u00a0Wilson Hall 316 &nbsp; &nbsp; Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s\u00a0blink:\u00a0Can we be passive observers of our own behavior? Investigating the role of awareness in motor control is challenging because most actions are performed consciously. We have recently exploited eye blinking as a novel paradigm to tease&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":1824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/24165707\/Screenshot-2025-03-24-115554.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}