After a decade of Futureproof we’ve learned many things and one of the principal lessons we’ve learned is that scientists are often both dedicated and innovative.

Some will experiment on themselves, some will literally go to the ends of the Earth and beyond and some, like today's guest, will play hide and seek with Rats.

Why? Let’s find out.

Dr Michael Brecht, is Professor for Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation' at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience at Humboldt-University, Berlin.