Attention can feel like a fragile thing, especially when your brain struggles to sort signal from noise. Every second, your ...

Attention depends on the brain’s ability to filter out distractions, but new research suggests this works best when ...

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A new study in Neuron reveals that the brain’s executive center sends highly specialized, context-dependent instructions to the visual system rather than a generic broadcast signal. The findings ...