Dr. Poppy Crum

I should go to that food source.

But instead, it's something that if I experience a threat or something, I'm going to behave.

And that is a more selective response that I've tuned it towards.

Two interesting things to go with that.

So like crickets, for example.

Crickets have bimodal neurons that have sort of peaks in two different frequency ranges for the same neuron.

And each frequency range will elicit a completely different behavior.

So you've got a peak at 6K and you've got a peak at 40K.

And this is the same neuron.

Cricket hears 40K from a speaker, run over to it because that's got to be my bait.

And you hear 40K and they run away.

And it's very predictive behavior.

I spent a good period of time working with non-human primate species, marmosets.

Marmosets are very interesting when you get to a more sophisticated neural system.

But marmosets are very social.

It's critical to their happiness.

If you ever see a single marmoset in the zoo or something, that's a very unhappy situation.

animal, but they're native to the Amazon, New World monkeys native to Brazil and the Amazon, but they're arboreal.

They live in trees and they're very social.

So that kind of can be in conflict with each other because you're in dense foliage, but yet you need to communicate.