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BENGALURU: A team led by Prof Sridharan Devarajan which is studying brain regions and mechanisms that mediate human attention so as to develop therapies for treating attention disorders, in its recent work, has identified how particular brain regions – both in the neocortex (outermost layer of the brain) as well as in the deeper midbrain – contribute to attention. Devarajan is currently an associate professor in the Centre for Neuroscience and associate faculty in Computer Science and Automation at IISc. His group has shown that human participants with asymmetric wiring between the midbrain and the cortical hemispheres also show marked asymmetries in the way they pay attention. Devarajan, a recipient of the Swarnajayanti fellowship granted by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) for 2021, says the human brain has the remarkable ability to pay attention to important objects and locations in our world while ignoring irrelevant ones. Although attention has been studied behav...

Marvel Studios' Phase 4 of the MCU began in January of 2021 with the studio's debut Disney+ series: WandaVision . In the year that followed, a number of new heroes were introduced to Marvel fans including Shang-Chi, the Eternals, and Kate Bishop from Hawkeye , while new stories and roles came into play for the remaining Avengers.  This trend looks to continue in 2022 as OG Avenger Thor is set to receive his fourth MCU solo film with Taika Waititi's  Thor: Love and Thunder . Releasing in July, Thor will be joined by Tessa Thompson's Valkyrie, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Christian Bale as Gorr the God Butcher, and Natalie Portman's Jane Foster, who is expected to become Mighty Thor.  ADVERTISEMENT Even though audiences know next to nothing about what the film might hold, Marvel's Phase 4 and its roster of heroes are continuing to come together; and now, thanks to a new leak, fans have a better idea of Thor and Jane's place amon...