Coordinating Attention in the Brain (IMAGE)

Vanderbilt University

Coordinating Attention in the Brain

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Brain regions that are active when an individual was actively searching for a target letter are shown in red; those that reacted to a surprise stimulus are shown in blue. The inferior frontal junction, shown in yellow, was involved in both processes and is believed to play a primary role in coordinating the two different types of attention.

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Christopher Asplund

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