Author(s)

Ichiro Ashida, Yozo Miyaoka

Department of Health and Nutrition, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan.

An inexpensive stimulation system for recording eye-blink responses elicited by taste stimuli has been developed using a manually controlled syringe and tasimetric sensor. The system requires neither an intra-oral device nor clamping of the head and tongue for natural eye-blink responses. The data recorded by the system have a high temporal resolution that is likely to be sufficient for the analysis of eye-blink responses based on video recordings.

Eye-Blink, Taste Liquid, Stimulation Device, Tasimetric Sensor, Human

Ashida, I. and Miyaoka, Y. (2016) Development of a Stimulation System for the Gustatory Eye-Blink Response in Humans. Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, 6, 387-392. doi: 10.4236/jbbs.2016.610037.