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.

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

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

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.

If you understand mechanistically how something works, then you will know how best to fix it. It's like with a car; if you know in detail how it is built, then you can fix anything that goes wrong with it.