Attention and Executive Development

Prof Mark Johnson, Birkbeck
Prof Ian St James-Roberts, IoE
Prof Jon Driver, UCL

Neuroscience studies have
revealed the gradual development
of brain networks that control shifts
of attention and the planning of
sequences of action.

Transdisciplinary questions:

How is attention distributed in
class settings, and with what degree
and type of variation? Can sustained
periods of attention in children be
trained to facilitate classroom performance?