Our brains focus on important events and filter out distracting ones. An investigation in monkeys reveals a surprising dissociation between the neuronal and behavioural manifestations of attention. See Letter p.434
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Smolyanskaya, A., Born, R. Attention is more than meets the eye. Nature 489, 371–372 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/489371a
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