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How your attention span compares with a monkey’s
As it turns out, when humans and macaques focus on the same task, more regions of the human brain are active, a small study published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows. The finding reveals that the human attention network probably expanded over time. And that's a pretty important piece of our evolutionary puzzle – especially given how often scientists use the macaque brain as a proxy for our own.
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