Rehabilitation of selective attention

Attention is a complex cognitive function that has been researched from several scientific fields—from neuropsychology to cognitive neurosciencevia psychometrics and even electrophysiology. This has resulted in the development of multiple models that attempt to explain this ability from different perspectives. Cognitive neuroscience, for example, attempts to identify those areas of the brain most involved in attentional processes such as the prefrontal cortex and sensory cortex, and subcortical structures such as the optic thalamus, the corpus striatum (the caudatenucleus and the lentiform nucleus), the septal nuclei, the nucleus basalis of Meynert, and the cerebellum.1