{"id":1082,"date":"2014-04-17T14:29:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T19:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2014-04-24T14:51:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T19:51:16","slug":"measuring-the-brains-anti-distraction-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/measuring-the-brains-anti-distraction-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring the brain\u2019s anti-distraction system<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1209\" style=\"width: 404px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/EEG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1209\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1209\" alt=\"Researchers at Simon Fraser University have shown that EEGs can be used to detect and study the activity of neural circuits that suppress our tendency to get distracted. (Photo credit: Simon Fraser University Public Affairs and Media Relations)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/EEG.jpg\" width=\"394\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/EEG.jpg 394w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/EEG-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researchers at Simon Fraser University have shown that EEGs can be used to detect and study the activity of neural circuits that suppress our tendency to get distracted. (Photo credit: Simon Fraser University Public Affairs and Media Relations)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Researchers have used EEGs\u00a0(electoencephalogram)<em>\u00a0<\/em>to show that a newly discovered type of neural process that works to overcome a distraction. When your gaze shifts to follow a distraction, neural circuits in your brain gives off signals that can be detected during an EEG.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery could help develop new strategies to avoid distracted driving or offer insight into attention deficit disorders.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jneurosci.org\/content\/34\/16\/5658.short?sid=f61efd6e-8fc1-4730-93dc-1527d6834a4d\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Journal of Neuroscience<\/em><i>\u00a0<\/i>on\u00a0<strong>April 16, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/brainlab\/hbrlab_people.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Gaspar<\/a>, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia<\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/~jmcd\/\" target=\"_blank\">John McDonald<\/a>, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have used EEGs\u00a0(electoencephalogram)\u00a0to show that a newly discovered type of neural process that works to overcome a distraction. When your gaze shifts to follow a distraction, neural circuits in your brain gives off signals that can be detected during an EEG. The discovery could help develop new strategies to avoid distracted driving or offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[992,125,51,53,200],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-brain","tag-british-columbia","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-neurology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/EEG.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-hs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}