Question: Why did you choose this topic of improving brains is it more important than space or health ?

Paul Matusz answered on 6 Nov 2018:

Hi Amelia,

Thanks for this question, very good point! 🙂
I studied psychology to understand how people pay attention to visual and audio-visual information, so that I could find new ways of understanding better memory from the point of view of how it functions in everyday situations. So I then learnt how to do sophisticated novel analyses on “old” brain imaging methods like EEG – electroencephalography – so that I can be better understand how healthy and not healthy kids learn information in the outside world. These days we are “attacking” such problems as mental health, obesity, addiction, and others from many different point of views. So as a person working on ways to improve education and ways to give children skills to read or do basic maths, I hope my research still fits into broadly defined “health”.

I think all areas of science and knowledge are important – but personally was just more interested in what’s “inside” us, rather than what’s “out there” 🙂