Dr. Tae-Ho Lee, assistant professor of psychology, along with Ben Katz, assistant professor of human development in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, and Il Hwan Kim, an assistant professor from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, have earned a five-year $3.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging for their study, "Losing Specificity: The role of the locus coeruleus in age-related distractibility." Specifically, the researchers are looking at attention networks in the brain with the goal of examining how those networks do or do not connect to each other when one is trying to focus in a distracting or stressful environment. Read more about their research now.
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