Researchers discover new mechanism for attentional control in the human brain
Monday, December 15, 2008 - 11:42
in Biology & Nature
A study by UC Davis researchers appearing in the journal Science reports the discovery of a new mechanism of attention in the human brain. Previous studies in animals implicated changes in the state of a portion of the brainstem, called the locus ceruleus (LC), in shifts from distractible to attentive states.