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Parietal and prefrontal neurons driven to distraction

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The ability to filter out distracting sensory information is crucial to adaptive behavior. A primate study finds that prefrontal cortex is more important than parietal cortex in that function.

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Figure 1: Electrophysiology and local inactivation of parietal and prefrontal cortex.

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  1. Behrad Noudoost and Tirin Moore are in the Department of Neurobiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.,

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