Nature Neuroscience 8, 1631 - 1633 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nn1205-1631
Neural mechanisms of attention and control: losing our inhibitions?Sander Nieuwenhuis1
& Nick Yeung21
Sander Nieuwenhuis is at the Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. stn20@dds.nl
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Nick Yeung is at the Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. nyeung@cmu.edu
How are we able to focus our attention on the task at hand while ignoring myriad distractions? An elegant neuroimaging study in this issue finds that, contrary to a widely held view, the prefrontal cortex implements attentional control by amplifying task-relevant information, rather than by inhibiting distracting stimuli.
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