Question: do you research just human brains or do you research animal brains too?

Martin Coath answered on 16 Mar 2010:

Of course I dont work on real brains – just simulations. And there isn’t that much difference between brains in People, cats, rats, dolphins and so on.

We think the same principles can be found in all brains – but to be safe I should say all brains of mammals, because fish and reptiles are more different!

Anyway I hope what I do will help us to understand all brains, because we think that they all work in basically the same way.