Barn Owls Help Scientists Unlock How The Brain Pays Attention

Buzzing smart phones, a filling email inbox, the chatter of colleagues and friends. In today’s society, focus often feels futile. Now researchers say they have figured out how the brain pays attention. The work could explain what goes awry in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and other attention conditions.“There are a million things out there in the world bombarding our eyes, our ears, our skin and other sensory organs,” Shreesh Mysore, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins