Scientists have discovered that blinking stops part of your brain thinking. Sections of your brain are temporarily “switched off” when we blink, experts revealed on Monday. Researchers

found that the brain shuts down the part used to process what we see for every blink. The boffins at University College London said this could explain why people don’t notice their own blinking, even though we blink 15 times a minute. People blink to keep the surface of their eye moist. The study used a specially-designed device to study the effects of blinking on the brain. — Agencies