Once we learn the circuitry for attention, we plan to use that to drive learning in an efficient way.

What our experiment demonstrates is a fundamental principle of how the brain pays attention.

What our experiment demonstrates is a fundamental principle of how the brain pays attention. The promise here is that because we are doing this in owls, we can get at the mechanisms of how this works.

If you're learning to drive, you need to be paying attention. You need to figure out first how to drive, and as a secondary issue, figure out if you can do two or three things at once.

The fundamental mechanisms are probably going to be the same in all vertebrates, as even frogs and fish have gaze control. The promise here is that because we are doing this in owls, we can get at the mechanisms of how this works.

If you understand mechanistically how something works, then you will know how best to fix it.