Welcome to the next installment of Paying Attention to Attention, the video-mostly portion of the “John Medina’s Brain Rules” substack. This entry provides an introduction to the neural substrates mediating attention in the human brain. It begins, as before, with tart commentaries from Groucho Marx.
There are both uncaptioned and captioned (cc) versions of this video.
Here are some references for Entry 055:
Rossi, A.F. et al "The Prefrontal Cortex and the Executive Control of Attention." Exp Brain Res 192, no. 3 (2009): 489-97.
Wolff, M., and M. M .Halassa. "The Mediodorsal Thalamus in Executive Control." Neuron 112, no. 6 (2024): 893-908.