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Attention and focus
How brain networks help us notice, focus and find our place again.
Attention
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Illustration of networks being explored in ADHD. The exact mechanisms are still being investigated.
Sources and model credits
Reviewed September 2026. Highlights identify approximate regions involved in the explanation, rather than moment-by-moment measurements. The everyday scene is an illustration.
- Attention networks — Fan and colleagues (2005)
- How attention networks interact — Xuan and colleagues (2016)
- Goal-directed attention and reorienting — Sestieri, Shulman and Corbetta (2012)
- Attention-network connectivity in adult ADHD — Metin and colleagues (2024)
- Auditory, salience and default-mode networks in adult ADHD — Blomberg and colleagues (2022)
- Distraction during a conversation — Salmi and colleagues (online 2019; journal issue 2020)
The anatomical surface is adapted from Brain Project, Z-Anatomy / BodyParts3D, © DBCLS and contributors. Adapted geometry and regional visualisation: CC BY-SA 4.0. Three.js: MIT licence. Illustrative connection curves are not measured fibre tracts.
Narration: Emma (Kokoro bf_emma). The recording is included in this file and plays offline.