Can’t Focus? Scientists Just Found the Ancient Brain Cells Responsible for Distracting You

A breakthrough study revealed a primitive brain region that acts as a built-in filter to block out a noisy world.

Precision fMRI maps prefrontal cortex in individuals, revealing fine-scale structures

Much like camera settings—filters, flashes and focus—affect what we notice in a final photo, the way scientists measure ...
The Debrief

Scientists Have Discovered an Ancient Brain Circuit That Filters Distractions

Before the prefrontal cortex evolved, another system in the brain may already have been directing attention, scientists have ...
Medical Xpress

Single-neuron projectomes of macaque prefrontal cortex reveal primate-specific connectivity principle

In a study published in Cell on July 10, researchers reported the first comprehensive study of whole-brain projectomes of the macaque prefrontal cortex (PFC) at the single-neuron level and revealed ...