Meck and Benson from Duke University write, "
The review of the literature presented here suggests that the frontal cortex and related basal ganglionic areas are involved both in the generation of attentional set shifting and in interval timing behavior." In layperson's terms: Brain regions involved in attention and shifting of focus are the same brain regions activated when one is keeping track of time, such as in IM training. IM improves attention at a foundational level. Read the whole article
here.
