Dr. Poppy Crum

Now, I am a huge advocate for technology improving us as humans, but also improving the data we have to make better decisions and the sort of insights that drive us.

At the same time, I think sometimes we're penny wise, pound foolish with how we use technology.

And the quick things that make us faster can also make us dumber and take away our cognitive capabilities.

And where you'll end up with those that are using the technologies might be to write papers all the time or maybe, well, and we can talk about that more, are putting themselves in a place where

they are going to be compromised trying to do anything without that technology and also in terms of their learning of that data, that information.

And so you start even ending up with bigger differentiations and cognitive capabilities by how you use a tool, a technology tool to make you better or faster or not.

One of my sort of things I've always done is teach at Stanford.

We also have that in common.

But my class there is called neuroplasticity and video gaming.

And I'm a neurophysiologist, but I'm really a technologist.

I like buildings.

I like innovation across many domains.

And while that class says video gaming, it's really more – well, video games are powerful in the sense that there's this sort of closed loop environment.

You give feedback.

You get data on your performance.

But you get to control that and know what you randomize, how you build.

And what our aim is in that class is to build technology and games with an understanding of the neural circuits you're impacting and how you want to what you want to train.

I'll have students that are musicians.

I'll have students that are computer scientists.

I'll have students that are.