I was lucky to go into a program at Duke where you picked an advisor after your first year, and I was lucky enough to be accepted by Irving Diamond.

Irving Diamond had just come to Duke the year before from the University of Chicago. He was known for his research on auditory cortex of cats which he had done at the University of Chicago with Dewey Neff who was there, and this was sort of the leading research at the time, and Duke considered this was a real coup that they could get him to come and work at Duke University Psychology Department, and it made a change in the Psychology Department, I think, because this was the first time that someone working on the brain was really part of the group, and it was a small group at that time on the East campus of Duke University which was the women’s campus. That was another recruiting benefit. So what they were doing at this time is that they were using this view of how auditory cortex was organized in cats, and it came from Woolsey and Rose at the University of Wisconsin, and I will get to that in a second. But the idea was that you did not have many tools to understand how brains were organized or how they worked at the time, but one of the things you could do, since the time of Broca you could the lesion approach was good, and you could make lesions and take out this stuff here that was defined as auditory, and see what cats could do – and they did a lot of that. Now that kind of organization came about from earlier studies by Woolsey by which they recorded what we would say is field potentials or evoked potentials from the brains of cats while they electrically stimulated the cochlea, and this was published in Science.