title: Attention and awareness in synchrony.
abstract: Interactions between functional areas are often considered to account for subtle aspects of cognitive functions, although direct experimental evidence is scarce. A recent study by Gross et al. relates the strength of synchrony between human parietal, frontal and occipital regions to the availability of attentional resources. These results support the current view that attention and awareness emerge from dynamic interactions in distributed networks.
authors.affiliation: CNRS-LENA, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpétrière, Paris, France. catherine.tallon-baudry@chups.jussieu.fr
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tallon-Baudry
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology*; D003344:Cortical Synchronization / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology