Researchers have claimed that the brain seems to synchronize the activity of different brain regions to make it possible for a person to pay attention or concentrate on a task. Senior author Maurizio Corbetta MD the Norman J. Stupp Professor of Neurology and her team used grids of electrodes temporarily implanted onto the brains of patients with epilepsy. Co-senior author Eric Leuthardt MD associate professor of neurosurgery and bioengineering uses the grids to map for surgical removal of brain tissues that contribute to uncontrollable seizures to analyze brain changes linked to attention. (Read: Revealed – how brain training improves performance)
