Dr. Michael Kilgard

And they have a lot to learn.

And making it simple is a good idea.

But the chance that any given word in English

has a biological basis, one molecule, one cell type, one rhythm, is zero.

There's an infinite number of words we could have made.

There's a lot of complex biology.

There isn't likely, in my opinion, this is a rare opinion, there isn't likely to be an attention thing.

It's just a word we made up to describe a series of phenomenon.

There doesn't have to be a gene for that.

We think there does.

There's a gene for everything.

There's lots of genes for everything.

So the way it works to bring this all together, these forces all coming together, is called the synaptic eligibility trace.

This is Alfredo Kirkwood's work and many others.

He's at Johns Hopkins.

But many people have contributed to this.

The neuron has learned, the synapse has learned, I need to strengthen long-term potentiation because there's a presynaptic input, releasing typically glutamate, onto the postsynaptic cell.

The cell is receiving it.

And

Because the order was right, release glutamate and then respond, I should strengthen.