Distracted? Blame Your Claustrum!

To succeed in reading these sentences, your brain must ignore a variety of distractions—sights, sounds, and smells. Resisting distractions is vital ability for our daily lives, it poses unique challenge people who are dealing with attention disorders. In recent study, we asked whether an area the called claustrum supports to distractions. We developed methods that allowed us silence mice. challenged mice tasks requiring them pay attention. found whose claustra were silenced especially sensitive These results provide important clue about function claustrum, hope they will contribute development new assist