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Attention is a cognitive process in which a person or animal concentrates on one thing in particular. To attend to something is to focus, heed or take notice of that thing irrespective of what else is going on in the surroundings.
Children typically exhibit weaker memory than adults. Here, the authors report a developmental reversal-like phenomenon that children show better memory for attended but outdated information, suggesting underdeveloped memory selection in children.
Flexible interareal communication mechanism based on realistic spatiotemporal dynamics of propagating waves of neural population activity, showing how modulating this communication explains various neural effects of attention.
Our study successfully tracks salient distracting signals in high-frequency activity obtained from human intracranial recordings. We observed that the temporal lobe has a critical role in reacting to salient distractors, whereas the parietal and frontal cortices seem to be less important than previously thought.