Dr. Michael Kilgard
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Cocaine, all these things do it.
And I did experiment after experiment after experiment after experiment.
I still feel bad for the graduate students who did all of those experiments.
Did Adderall.
Did all of them paired with a tone.
And it just didn't change anything.
And that's because the tone only comes on once in a while.
And they're just ongoing activity.
Neurons are firing.
If you record neurons, they're firing all the time.
Only one action potential is the tone exponential.
The neurons firing at 4 or 5 hertz, sometimes 20 hertz, just pop it along all the time.
And then you get one more spike when you record these neurons, when a drifting gradient goes by or a scene or whatever.
It's not much more.
We should just clarify that.
Yeah, thank you.
And so how does the brain know which thing?
There's 150 trillion connections.
Which one am I asking for more of?
You've got to tell me which.