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Attention — brains at work!

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Two new studies use event-related fMRI to reveal a network of brain regions that are activated during different steps in the control of visual spatial attention.

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Figure 1: Brain areas activated in a ‘naked’ eye and brain, from a subject who was facing a display screen and doing a covert attention task, similar that used in Hopfinger et al.1 and Corbetta et al.2

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