Control of attention is the ultimate individual power.
Miller, E. K. & Buschman, T. J. Cortical circuits for the control of attention.
The prefrontal cortex is especially important for the control of attention.
Participants completed two attention tasks in a counterbalanced order: (i) a priming task assessing bottom-up control of attention and (ii) a working memory task assessing top-down control of attention.
"Volitional Control of Attention and Brain Activation in Dual Task Performance". Human Brain Mapping (2): 109–17.
So we know from the lesion evidence there's some important role of these areas in the control of attention.
Kim, H., Ährlund-Richter, S., Wang, X., Deisseroth, K. & Carlén, M. Prefrontal parvalbumin neurons in control of attention.
In fact, dopamine has lots of functions in the brain – being involved in everything from regulating movement to the control of attention.
These results are in line with other findings that suggest that better control of attention is the most effective way to regulate mood.
So anyhow, there's a lot of experiments showing that frontal eye fields should play an important role in control of attention.
We investigated whether attentional bias for food cues varies between individuals with overweight/obesity and healthy weight individuals, due to differential top-down control of attention.
