In article <40953 at netnews.upenn.edu> peretz at grad1.cis.upenn.edu (Samuel R. Peretz) writes:
>One hypothesis is that attention is related to synchronized oscillations
>in certain brain regions. I can't remember the exact reference, but there
>was a paper by Francis Crick a couple years back regarding this
>"searchlight" hypothesis of attention. I think the brain region discussed
>in that particular paper was the hypothalamus.
That would be thalamus, Sam. There are actually a couple of papers
that go sort of along these lines (ask Jim Cummings for some of
them; he used one of these papers for a journal club last fall.)
