Dr. Poppy Crum

I get faster at.

I have faster reaction times.

I also have faster interpretations.

So am I allocating cells that used to do something else to allow me to have that?

Probably.

But I'm also building, you know, where, like, think about me as a multisensory object that has, you know, I have to integrate information across sight, sound, smell.

to form a holistic object experience, that same sort of integration and pattern is happening now when we communicate in ways that it didn't used to.

So what does that mean?

It means there's a lot more repeatability, a lot faster pattern matching, a lot more integration that is allowing us to go faster.

It goes in lots of different directions.

One thing I did want to say, though, with smartphones specifically and sort of everything, in audio, our ability to carry our lifetime of music and content with us has been because of huge advances in the last 25, 30 years.

and maybe slightly more, around compression algorithms that have enabled us to have really effective what we call perceptual compression, lossy perceptual algorithms, and things like MP3 and, you know, my past work with companies like Bilby.

But whenever you're talking about what's the goal of content compression algorithms, it's to translate the entirety of the experience, the entirety of a signal in, you know,

with a lot of the information removed, right?

But in intelligent ways.

When you look at the way someone is communicating with acronyms and the shorthand that the next generations use to communicate, it is such a rich communication, even though they might just say, LOL.

I mean, it's like, or they might, you know, it's actually a lossy compression that's triggering a huge cognitive experience, right?

Lossy means that in your encoding and decoding of that information, there is actually information that's lost when you decode it.

But hopefully that information is not impacting the perceptual experience.

Imagine I have a song and I want to represent that song.