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What part of the brain controls concentration?
Question Date: 2012-01-10
Answer 1:

According to neuroscientist Earl Miller report from his study on monkeys, the brain areas involved in concentration are the prefrontal cortex and the parietal cortex.


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Before this article, scientists knew that paying attention involved multiple brain regions but they did not know how, because studies have examined one region at a time.



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