A study led by Prof. Israel Nelken and Anna Polterovich of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Neuroscience and the Institute of Life Sciences has found that during concentration, the neurons in the auditory cortex operate in perfect coordination with the task, emphasizing only the important sounds and filtering out others. The findings, published in Science Advances, offer new insight into how the brain focuses our vocal attention.

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