Dr. Michael Kilgard

But you have to be there and you have to see that person having that experience.

Now, as the ball is traveling down...

to you or as the person is about to, you know, pull the ball away from you in the Charlie Brown analogy or whatever the experience is, having that sequence of events, you have a prediction.

It's pretty low reliability that this is going to be a slider.

Then I start to see, hey, it looks like a slider.

Then I swing at it and I miss and I say, that was a slider.

I missed that one.

Then I think about it at the end of the day and I go back and for many of us, you dream about it.

What is all that about?

My original interest in neuroplasticity actually came because something happened to me, not something I chose to happen.

I worked in a lab in college squeezing the salivary glands of Drosophila, so the little maggots in the fruit flies.

If you squeeze them, they have these banded patterns.

which is where all their DNA and their chromatin, their organization of the DNA is organized.

And my job was to look and find – it looked like barcodes.

So it would be a thick line, thick line, thin line, thin line, thick line, thick line.

In the saliva?

It's actually in the cells.

They're –

It's a syncytion, so about 900 cells all fused together to make one cell.

All the DNA then aligns when you stain it.