The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
the rate of blinking is controlled by dopamine. So, what this means is that dopamine is controlling attention. Blinks relate to attention and focus. And therefore, the dopamine and blinking system is one way that you constantly modulate and update your perception of time.
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Believe it or not, your perception of time is also changed on a rapid basis, momentto- moment basis by how often you blink.
And so that's why we see evidence for dopamine being associated with these changes in time perception both for positive events and for negative events.