{"id":115404,"date":"2020-11-04T14:17:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T22:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/specific-brain-region-and-circuits-controlling-attention-identified"},"modified":"2020-11-04T14:17:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T22:17:57","slug":"specific-brain-region-and-circuits-controlling-attention-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/specific-brain-region-and-circuits-controlling-attention-identified","title":{"rendered":"Specific Brain Region and Circuits Controlling Attention Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/specific-brain-region-and-circuits-controlling-attention-identified.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Study identifies a key role locus coeruleus neurons play in attentional control.<\/p>\n<p>Source: picower institute of learning and memory.<\/p>\n<p>The attentional control that organisms need to succeed in their goals comes from two abilities: the focus to ignore distractions and the discipline to curb impulses. A new study by MIT neuroscientists shows that these abilities are independent, but that the activity of norepinephrine-producing neurons in a single brain region, the locus coeruleus, controls both by targeting two distinct areas of the prefrontal cortex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Study identifies a key role locus coeruleus neurons play in attentional control. Source: picower institute of learning and memory. The attentional control that organisms need to succeed in their goals comes from two abilities: the focus to ignore distractions and the discipline to curb impulses. A new study by MIT neuroscientists shows that these [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}