Researchers Discover New Mechanism For Attentional Control In The Human Brain, University of California, Davis (UCD) Study
Physorg -- 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.