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Attention and the Brain


From Perception to Attention - Discovering the Brain - NCBI Bookshelf

The systems of perception—vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch—stand as a piquant challenge to researchers in this regard, because they each ...

How the brain pays attention - MIT McGovern Institute

A new study by MIT neuroscientists reveals how the brain achieves this type of focused attention on faces or other objects.

Understanding Your Brain's Attention System - Mindful.org

In this series we'll be exploring topics of attention and how they relate to mindfulness training—all useful tools for us to use in our own ...

Neuroscientists Identify Brain Mechanism that Drives Focus

Neuroscientists at Penn Medicine find that key neurons in the front of the brain act as “traffic control” to manage our attention to visual ...

Attention can be subdivided into neurobiological components ...

Attention is generally used to indicate any brain function that influences the behavioral performance of an animal. One aspect of attention ...

The Attention System of the Human Brain: 20 Years After - PMC

The attention system is anatomically separate from processing systems, which handle incoming stimuli, make decisions, and produce outputs.

Attention in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Machine Learning

In general, the changes associated with attention are believed to increase the signal-to-noise ratio of the neurons that represent the attended stimulus, ...

A surprising new source of attention in the brain

Meticulous research over decades has found that the control of this vital ability, called selective attention, belongs to a handful of areas in ...

Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain

We review evidence for partially segregated networks of brain areas that carry out different attentional functions.

Researchers identify brain region involved in control of attention

University of Iowa researchers have identified a brain region involved in how attention or thought is diverted.

Attention - Wikipedia

William James (1890) wrote that "Attention is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously ...

Strategies for Getting and Keeping the Brain's Attention - Edutopia

1. Shine the spotlight on attention. Introduce the subject of attention by asking students to share examples of being so focused on an activity that they've ...

Attention: Your Brain's Superpower - Frontiers for Young Minds

In this paper, we will present three important concepts about paying attention and explain how the brain gives you this superpower.

What happens in your brain when you pay attention? | TED Talk

Attention isn't just about what we focus on -- it's also about what our brains filter out. By investigating patterns in the brain as people ...

Brain mechanisms associated with internally directed attention and ...

This fMRI study aimed to disentangle the brain mechanisms associated with attention-specific and task-specific processes during internally directed cognition.

What happens in your brain when you pay attention? - YouTube

Attention isn't just about what we focus on -- it's also about what our brains filter out. By investigating patterns in the brain as people ...

Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention From brain mechanisms to ...

In this review paper, we present information about different levels of analysis of all three aspects involved in this central function of cognition.

How the brain enables us to rapidly focus attention

Research has shown that the electrical activity of the neocortex of the brain changes, when we focus our attention. Neurons stop signalling in ...

How the Brain Pays Attention - YouTube

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Attention and Early Brain Development

Attention is thought to change with age concurrently with changes in brain function. Models of attention in early development are based upon behavioural ...